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OpenOffice Daemon Externalize your OOo installation. As you may know, openoffice could be used as "translation" document format, for example you could translate a Microsoft Office word document (.doc) to an OpenDocument (ods) or both of them in to html. eyeOS use that functionality to have support for that formats.

That daemon "externalize" the OpenOffice to do it via petition like a http request.

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FAQ Is that software supported officially by eyeOS Project?

The answer is quite short, NO. That software was developed for a customer by eyeOS Company and is no longer supported or maintained. So if you are a Perl monk, and you want become the new maintainer please send an email to

FAQ How it works?

The eyeOS library eyeConvert is patched to make a request (connect to a server and make a petition) even execute the process directly. You can find the patch for eyeOS 1.8 here. Then, that server (oooDaemon) receive the petition, handle the arguments and finally execute the command (the same command that is executed by php in a normal eyeOS installation). Of course, after execute the command, the resulted document is send (answered?) to the php that had made the petition.

FAQ How can I use it?

Before use it, please consider that this "product" is no supported by anybody, so be careful about use it in a production environment.

That daemon is wrote in Perl, and that are his dependencies:

  • Perl
  • Zip (command line zip)
  • maybe more I have to check it

FAQ How do I get it?

The oooDaemon perl script is here http://afiestas.eyeos.org/oooDaemon.pl