LibreOffice-rs – I built a pure-Rust LibreOffice using autoresearch

In plain words

LibreOffice-rs is a pure-Rust library and command-line tool for reading, writing, converting, and rendering office documents without requiring LibreOffice, Java, or C dependencies. It supports DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, ODT, ODS, ODP, PDF, Markdown, CSV, HTML, and SVG formats. Users can convert between formats, extract content to Markdown, and render document pages as images through a command-line interface modeled after LibreOffice's standard usage patterns. The tool is designed for developers who need document processing functionality in Rust projects.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

LibreOffice CLI in Rust. Contribute to clark-labs-inc/libreoffice-rs development by creating an account on GitHub.

Pure-Rust library and CLI for reading, writing, converting, and rendering office documents — DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, ODT, ODS, ODP, ODG, ODF, ODB, PDF, HTML, SVG, Markdown, CSV, and plain text — with no C/C++ shims, no FFI, no LibreOffice install, and no native system dependencies . cargo install libreoffice-pure # Convert DOCX to PDF — no soffice, no Java, no system deps libreoffice-pure --headless --convert-to pdf report.docx # Spreadsheet to CSV libreoffice-pure --headless --convert-to csv spreadsheet.xlsx # PPTX to PDF libreoffice-pure --headless --convert-to pdf slides.pptx # Markdown to DOCX libreoffice-pure convert --to docx notes.md notes.docx # Markdown to polished, tagged PDF (HTML/CSS,…from github.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

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…

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