zmVault/new-additions/powershell-document-conversion-module.md

PowerShell Document Conversion

PowerShell module to allow fluent conversion of "document" files, including markup source (.md, .adoc, .rst, etc.) and binary formats (.pdf, .docx, etc.), as well as allow common high-level actions on them.

Note

Cmdlets should be written to accept multiple input files where appropriate.

Convert-Document

• pandoc
• calibre ebook-convert (if necessary)
• muPDF
• AsciiDoctor

Measure-Document

Measure total words, occurances of unique words, etc. Where applicable, the same by page, as well as total pages.

Format-Document

Run format specific linter on document.

Get-DocumentMetadata/Set-DocumentMetadata

Reconcile document metadata formats

Import-Document

Return PSCustomObject with appropriate properties.

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Import-XML

Missing from base pwsh but should be straightforward to implement.

function Import-XML {
    param(
        [string]$Path
    )
    $xmlText = Get-Content $Path
    $document = [xml]$xmlText
    return $document
}

*.SupplierLink.xml

Unblock-Excel