How can I use PowerShell to `save as…` a different file extension?

Question

I\'m using the following powershell script to open a few thousand HTML files and \"save as...\" Word documents.

param([string]$htmpath,[string]$docpath = $d         


        

Answer 1

I know this is an older post but I am posting this code here so that I can find it in the future

**

This does a recursive walk of a root folder and Converts Doc and DocX to Txt

**

Here is a LINK to the diffierent formats you can save to.

$docpath = "C:\Temp"
$WdTypes = Add-Type -AssemblyName 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' -Passthru
$srcfiles =  get-childitem  $docpath  -filter "*.doc" -rec | where {!$_.PSIsContainer}  | select-object  FullName
$saveFormat = $WdTypes | Where {$_.Name -eq 'WdSaveFormat'}
$word = new-object -comobject word.application
$word.Visible = $False

function saveas-filteredhtml
    {
        $opendoc = $word.documents.open($doc.FullName);
        $Name=($doc.Fullname).replace(".docx",".txt").replace(".doc",".txt")
        $opendoc.saveas([ref]$Name, [ref]$saveFormat::wdFormatDOSText); ##wdFormatDocument
        $opendoc.close();
    }

ForEach ($doc in $srcfiles)
    {
        Write-Host "Processing :" $doc.FullName
        saveas-filteredhtml
        $doc = $null
    }

$word.quit();