Error if document has unicode characters

[e2045]

Hello,

my document has unicode characters. But this error occured.

Error: Command failed: "c:\Users\myUser\Tool\node_modules\msoconvert\bin\docto.exe" --word --inputfile "C:\Users\myUser\test.doc" --outputfile "C:\Users\myUser\test.txt" --format wdFormatText msoEncodingUTF8

at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:308:12)
at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:315:20)
at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1048:16)
at Socket.<anonymous> (internal/child_process.js:439:11)
at Socket.emit (events.js:315:20)
at Pipe.<anonymous> (net.js:673:12) {

killed: false,
code: 200,
signal: null,
cmd: '"c:\Users\myUser\Tool\node_modules\msoconvert\bin\docto.exe" --word --inputfile "C:\Users\myUser\test.doc" --outputfile "C:\Users\myUser\test.txt" --format wdFormatText msoEncodingUTF8'
}

Here is my code.

    const convert = require("msoconvert");
    convert({
        use: 'WD',
        input: inputFileDoc, 
        output: outputFileTXT, 
        format: 'wdFormatText', 
        options: 'msoEncodingUTF8',
    })
    .then(() => console.log("done"))
    .catch((error) => {
        console.log(error)
    });

Could you help me to handle this issue?

Thank you in advance.

[brrd]

Referring to https://github.com/tobya/DocTo, I think the correct parameter for options is:

options: '-E msoEncodingUTF8'

[e2045]

Referring to https://github.com/tobya/DocTo, I think the correct parameter for options is:

options: '-E msoEncodingUTF8'

Thank you for your reply. I tried like you said, but error still occurs

Error: Command failed: "c:\Users\myUser\Tool\node_modules\msoconvert\bin\docto.exe" --word --inputfile "C:\Users\myUser\test.doc" --outputfile "C:\Users\myUser\test.txt" --format wdFormatText -E msoEncodingUTF8

at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:308:12)
at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:315:20)
at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1048:16)
at Socket.<anonymous> (internal/child_process.js:439:11)
at Socket.emit (events.js:315:20)
at Pipe.<anonymous> (net.js:673:12) {

killed: false,
code: 400,
signal: null,
cmd: '"c:\Users\myUser\Tool\node_modules\msoconvert\bin\docto.exe" --word --inputfile "C:\Users\myUser\test.doc" --outputfile "C:\Users\myUser\test.txt" --format wdFormatText -E msoEncodingUTF8'
}

[brrd]

Here is the output when running the command directly from docto.exe:

Exiting with Error 400: EConvertError
'msoEncodingUTF8' is not a valid integer value

For some reason msoEncodingUTF8 is not recognized by DocTo as a valid enum. But using directly its integer value seems to work as expected:

docto.exe --word --inputfile "test.doc" --outputfile "test.txt" --format wdFormatText -E 65001

So please try:

options: '-E 65001'

In any case we need to log better errors with msoconvert.

[e2045]

thank you. It works.

[tobya]

Yes, -E is an integer.

I should make that more explicit in the help. I should also provide a better error message!