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+# officeconvert
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+officeconvert is a toolset to convert common office document types images using LibreOffice (`soffice`). This repository provides three classes of projects:
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+- Python library responsible for actual conversion work
+- Connect gRPC Python server for easy microservice deployment
+- Client libraries for assorted languages
+
+APIs are built on typed Protocol Buffer schemas with codegen for the server and clients based on the primary schema.
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+## Supported Document Types
+
+Currently, only PPTX and ODP documents are supported. At the time of writing, PDF and image conversion is planned, however, presentation documents can currently only be converted to a custom `SlideDeck` type that encodes slides as images and includes richly-formatted slide notes.