ConvertMojo

A few years back I started digging through old floppies and archives, looking for documents written in FinalWriter, WordWorth, KindWords, old formats that most of the world has long forgotten. No single tool could read them all. So I created ConvertMojo: One convert-tool to rule them all!

It reads the most common word processor format from the Amiga era and beyond, and converts it cleanly to RTF, plain text, or PDF from a single command-line tool. No GUI needed, no libraries to install. One binary, run it from Shell or a script.

ConvertMojo works best with straightforward text documents. Headers, footers, embedded images, and complex layouts may not always convert perfectly, or may be dropped entirely. If your document is mostly text and basic formatting, you can expect clean results. If it is a heavily designed layout, your mileage may vary.

No GUI needed. No libraries to install. One binary, run it from Shell or a script, and your documents are converted.

Supported input formats: 

RTF, PDF, Word 6/95, Word 97–2003, Word 2007+, FinalWriter, FinalCopy, WordWorth, KindWords 1/2/3, Excellence!, Personal Write, WordPerfect, ProWrite, TransWrite, plain text

Output formats:

Plain text, RTF, PDF

Usage

; Convert a single Word document to RTF 
ConvertMojo document.docx TO rtf
  
; Overwrite output silently 
ConvertMojo document.docx TO txt OVERWRITE QUIET
  
; Specify a full destination path 
ConvertMojo document.docx TO ram:document.rtf
  
; Bulk-convert an entire directory to PDF 
ConvertMojo work:#?.doc TO pdf OVERWRITE 

Options

• OVERWRITE: Replace existing output file without prompting.
• QUIET: Suppress all status messages for clean scripting.
• VERBOSE: Show detected format and line count of each file.
• TO: Set output format (rtf/txt/pdf) or a full destination filename.

Changes

v0.9.33

• Initial release

Requirements

• AmigaOS 2.04 (V37) or higher
• 68000 CPU or better

Tested on AmigaOS3.2.

Created with a lot of help from AI (Claude Code). No puppies were hurt during the development.