Does litchi facilitate converting .doc to .docx file via 1 linear API

[logeswaran-r-7565]

Does litchi have the provision to convert .doc files to .docx directly while a single 1 liner api ? Else do we need to parse .doc files & need to manually construct .docx files actually ?

Suspecting that litchi has the common API for all the supported file formats, there should be a common abstract document structure beneath which I think should make this 1 linear conversion from .doc to .docx possible? Correct me if I am wrong.

[DevExzh]

TL;DR: not yet.

As is mentioned in README, the library currently only supports a small range of features and is still under active development (so I have not bumped up the version due to its instability). The unified APIs are just wrappers of the underlying formats (doc, docx, odt, ..., whatever) and I recommend you use the public functions exposed by the modules (ole and ooxml) instead. Converting the legacy OLE Word documents, or *.doc files, to modern OpenOffice XML documents involves an abstraction layer (as you said), which takes a lot of time and effort. I do have a plan to support this kind of interconversion, but it is still on the way. Since the OLE documents are binary streams in essence, and they may contain some obsolete features (e.g. Windows Metafile, Macintosh PICT, MathType equations), there is extra work on converting them to the modern OOXML format and vice versa. Stay tuned.