Converter Samples for text/directory handling

You can easily apply converters to transform proprietary text files into plain text format, or archives into directories.

Note that there are built-in converters for MS Doc, Docx, OpenOffice Writer and RTF documents.

Here are some samples:

On Windows

Converter

Parameters

Download

Text file sorting

Name	Sort
Pattern	*.txt (or any other file pattern which you want to be sorted)
Application	c:\windows\system32\sort.exe (your system location may be different)
Arguments	$(input) /O $(output)

None

Adobe PDF
to Text Conversion

Name	PDF to TXT
Pattern	*.pdf
Application	c:\progs\xpdf\pdftotext.exe (your location may be different)
Arguments	$(input) $(output)

Name	PDF to TXT
Pattern	*.pdf
Application	C:\Program Files\Intelligent Converters\demos\p2tagent.exe (your location may be different)
Arguments	--src=$(input) --dest=$(output)

Xpdf

Intelligent Converters

Microsoft Word to Text

Name	MS-Word to TXT
Pattern	*.doc
Application	C:\Program Files\Ellié Computing\Merge\converters\wordtotext.bat (your location may be different)
Arguments	$(input) $(output)

wvWare

Microsoft Word to HTML

Name	MS-Word to HTML
Pattern	*.doc
Application	C:\Program Files\Ellié Computing\Merge\converters\wordtohtml.bat (your location may be different)
Arguments	$(input) $(output)

wvWare

GZIP

Name	GZIP extraction
Pattern	.gz;.gzip
Application	C:\Program Files\Ellié Computing\Merge\converters\gzip-conv.bat (your location may be different)
Arguments	$(input) $(output)

gzip

RAR

Name	RAR extraction
Pattern	*.rar
Application	C:\Program Files\Ellié Computing\Merge\converters\unrar-conv.bat (your location may be different)
Arguments	$(input) $(output)

WinRAR

7-ZIP

Name	7Z extraction
Pattern	.7z;.zip;.tar;.tgz;.tbz;.rar;.cab;.arj;.rpm;.deb;*.chm
Application	C:\Program Files\Ellié Computing\Merge\converters\un7z-conv.bat (your location may be different)
Arguments	$(input) $(output)

7 Zip

On Linux

Converter

Parameters

Download

Text file sorting

Name	Sort
Pattern	*.txt (or any other file pattern which you want to be sorted)
Application	sort
Arguments	$(input) -o $(output)

None

Adobe PDF
to Text Conversion

Name	PDF to TXT
Pattern	*.pdf
Application	pdftotext
Arguments	$(input) $(output)

Xpdf

BZIP

Name	BZIP extraction
Pattern	.bz;.bz2
Application	bzip-conv (installed in Ellié Computing Merge directory)
Arguments	$(input) $(output)

bzip2
(bzip2 may be installed with the system default packages)

GZIP

Name	GZIP extraction
Pattern	*.gz
Application	gzip-conv (installed in Ellié Computing Merge directory)
Arguments	$(input) $(output)

gzip
(gzip may be installed with the system default packages)

The BZIP and GZIP samples above are already given in the converters sub-folder on Unix. Note that they are saved as plain ASCII files with no Unicode signature (many shells do not recognize this signature).

Please note that batches delivered along with Ellié Computing Merge software assumes that you installed the referenced applications in C:\Program Files. If you wish to install these applications in another location, you can update the batches accordingly.

See also

Converters Options