LibreOffice PDF generator service

A docker container environment to bundle the execution of unoconv, a command-line utility that uses LibreOffice to convert documents of various types (such as Word, OpenDocument, etc.) to PDF.

An instance of LibreOffice will be run in the background, and used by multiple requestors to perform the necessary conversions.

To build, run:

$ docker build --rm -t unoconv .

To start the container, run:

docker run -p 3000:3000 --mount type=tmpfs,destination=/tmp -ti unoconv

Now, files can be sent to the service:

curl -o out.pdf -F format=pdf -F 'file=@mydoc.doc' http://localhost:3000/convert