Function: Converts any text file of the types Plain Text, Rich Text, Word (Doc and WordML), HTML and Safari Webarchives into any other type. Author: Armin Briegel Input: (Files/Folders) Text Files Output: Files/Folders) Converted Text Files
That’s ridiculously useful. I just used it to convert a whole folder of Word documents into nice Apple-made HTML files (which will now get some grep-cleaning with some BBEdit automator steps). Thanks for sharing!
I’ve found this action really helpful, but it would get 5 stars if it had an option to save the file to it’s orginal folder. I use it to convert many Safari files to text docs, but I can only send the converted ones to the same place and would rather they stay sorted and go back to where they were. It’s great, though, that the action keeps the same name. Really helpful.
Please consider the above option of ’saving to original folder’ for the next, and hopefully soon, improvement.
Thank you very much indeed Armin - that’s a really useful action indeed.
Comment by John — August 9, 2008 @ 6:31 am
That’s ridiculously useful. I just used it to convert a whole folder of Word documents into nice Apple-made HTML files (which will now get some grep-cleaning with some BBEdit automator steps). Thanks for sharing!
Comment by jon — July 2, 2008 @ 6:32 am
I just get an Applescript error message. How do you get this to work?
Comment by Ken — March 27, 2007 @ 10:16 am
this is really helpful for putting my rtf documents into txt for the ipod
Comment by thomas — January 13, 2007 @ 10:18 am
I’ve found this action really helpful, but it would get 5 stars if it had an option to save the file to it’s orginal folder. I use it to convert many Safari files to text docs, but I can only send the converted ones to the same place and would rather they stay sorted and go back to where they were. It’s great, though, that the action keeps the same name. Really helpful. Please consider the above option of ’saving to original folder’ for the next, and hopefully soon, improvement.
Thanks, Deb
Comment by Deb — January 16, 2006 @ 6:03 pm