Parallel Document Conversion ODT > PDF Libreoffice

Question

I am converting hundreds of ODT files to PDF files, and it takes a long time doing one after the other. I have a CPU with multiple cores. Is it possible to use bash or python to

Answer 1

You can run libreoffice as a daemon/service. Please check the following link, maybe it helps you too: Daemonize the LibreOffice service

Other posibility is to use unoconv. "unoconv is a command line utility that can convert any file format that OpenOffice can import, to any file format that OpenOffice is capable of exporting."