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9 pointsstan_kirdey6d ago1 comments

Hey HN,

I built libreoffice-rs: a pure-Rust, std-only library + CLI for reading, writing, converting, and rendering office documents — with *zero* LibreOffice, Java, or C dependencies.

100x faster... I know, I know.

It supports DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, ODT/ODS/ODP, PDF, Markdown, CSV, HTML, SVG, and more. The CLI is designed to feel familiar:

```bash cargo install libreoffice-pure

# soffice-style usage libreoffice-pure --headless --convert-to pdf report.docx libreoffice-pure --headless --convert-to csv spreadsheet.xlsx

# Markdown extraction libreoffice-pure docx-to-md report.docx report.md libreoffice-pure pptx-to-md slides.pptx slides.md

# Render pages as images libreoffice-pure docx-to-pngs report.docx pages/ --dpi 144 ```

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kasabali5d ago

Holy deceptive naming

I was expecting something like "I spent a month and half a million dollars in claude tokens and ported libreoffice to rust"

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