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converter for different needs:

searching for the fastest and most memory saving open code to do that, suggestions?

text

* html2pdf
* pdf2html
* html2ascii filename pdf2text
* ps2ascii
* pstotext
* pdftops
* ascii -> postscript a2ps
* ascii -> pdf

audio

* wav -> mp3 lame
* wav -> ogg 'oggenc (part of vorbis-tools debian package)
* wma -> mp3 wma2mp3 script unsing mplayer and lame
* wma -> ogg (same as wma2mp3, just pipe the command to the oggencoder)
* mp3 change bitrate

image

* jpg -> png (imagemagick, convert rose.jpg rose.png)
* gif -> png (imagemagick ,http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-tools.php)
* png -> jpg ( " )
* resize (imagemagick)
* colors  (imagemagick)

-> Generally, for images Imagemagick can do (almost) anything.

database

* sql -> mdb
* mdb -> sql
* ex -> sql
*

video

* avi -> mpg
* avi -> svcd
* avi -> dvd 
* dvd -> wob -> avi
* mplayer --v caca

Microsoft > Free

Office

* doc (Word)-> ASCII,Postscript = antiword, catdoc
* xls (Excel)-> ASCII,MySQL = xls2csv, catdoc, [Intelligent Converters] (non-free)
* mdb (Access)-> ASCII,MySQL = [navicat] (non-free)
* ppt (Powerpoint) -> ASCII = catppt, catdoc

Media

* wmv (Windows Media Player))-> (xvid) avi = mencoder (mencoder -ovc wanted_videocodec -oac wanted_audiocodec wmvfile.wmv -o avifile.avi)
* wma (Windows Media Player))-> ogg = (look in audio)

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  * doc ([[Word]])-> [[ASCII]],[[Postscript]] = [[antiword]], [[catdoc]]
- * xls ([[Excel]])-> [[ASCII]],[[MySQL]] = [[xls2csv]], [[catdoc]] [[http://www.convert-in.com/ Intelligent Converters]] (non-free)
+ * xls ([[Excel]])-> [[ASCII]],[[MySQL]] = [[xls2csv]], [[catdoc]], [[http://www.convert-in.com/ Intelligent Converters]] (non-free)
  * mdb ([[Access]])-> [[ASCII]],[[MySQL]] = [[http://www.navicat.com/feature.html navicat]] (non-free)
  * ppt ([[Powerpoint]]) -> [[ASCII]] = [[catppt]], [[catdoc]]