groaking / odt2csv

Converts an ODT file generated by an OOMMF simulation-running into a CSV data file for better compatibility

odt2csv

This Python script converts an ODT file generated by an OOMMF (http://math.nist.gov/oommf/) into a CSV data file for better compatibility with more modern applications.

Features

The script can detect data rows and column header in an OOMMF ODT file, remove excessive space characters, and separate each data value with commas in no time. It has been tested to convert a 69.7 MiB ODT file into CSV in 1.9 second using home laptop.

Issues

• The script is yet to convert multiple ODT files simultaneously.
• The GUI version of this script is yet to be introduced.

Installation

To run odt2csv, simply install the latest Python version from https://www.python.org/downloads/ and execute the following conveniently in the same directory where the odt2csv.py file is located. No additional PIP module is required to run this script.

python odt2csv.py -i input.odt -o output.csv

Replace input.odt and output.csv accordingly.

See also

For those who want to convert an ODT file directly into an excel file, check out: ODT2Excel by Spiros94.