Convert Word document into wiki page + Export wiki pages into PDF or word document

Question

We are using a site collection of type enterprise wiki inside SP 2013 Enterprise edition. Now we are facing these two problems, where our customers keep reporting and complaining about:-

1. They already have many large word documents around 50 pages of text and images, and they need to convert the word doc into a wiki page. Now if they try to copy/paste the 50 pages from word to wiki everything will be pasted except the images … so is there a way to either allow pasting images directly inside the wiki pages ? or to convert the word to the wiki ?

2. Also, they have wiki pages that they need to export as pdf or word? So does SharePoint support converting wiki pages into either MS Word or pdf?

Answer 1

We ran into this problem back with SharePoint 2010. Ultimately, we never found a solution, and users were forced to manually upload the images.

However, I do remember that copying and pasting using Firefox embedded the images using base64 encoded strings. So the images were never uploaded into the Images library, but were instead embedded into the HTML markup of the wiki page.

If the word files are as large as you say, then the markup is going to be pretty huge, but I thought it was worth mentioning. Give it a go to see if Firefox still works like that with the SharePoint 2013 out of the box editor.

Edit: Here's a screenshot of it working in SharePoint 2010.. not sure about SP 2013, but it's worth a try to see if it's feasible. You may need to click on 'copy' and 'paste', as opposed to ctrl+c, ctrl+v.

Answer 2

1. You could do that with some custom development (I would suggest aspose for .net, see http://www.aspose.com/ - not free but awesome.)

2. Not out of the box - there are components for that, too. See http://www.aspose.com/sharepoint/pdf-component.aspx

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with aspose :)

Answer 3

1. Third-party software is needed to convert a word document directly to a wiki (Convert Word Documents to Wiki Pages). Another option you might consider is embedding the Word documents directly into pages with a script editor and an iframe, but you would have long loading times for documents as large as you're dealing with. Pictures have to be copied separately or inserted to make it into a Wiki page, so that's an option, too.

2. Bamboo offers software that exports pages to PDFs (you'll find a link to them in the link above). Haven't seen another way to do this.

Answer 4

One method that I have seen is to use the publishing features of Word to publish the document to a Sharepoint wiki. Once published, the HTML is taken from the blog and pasted into the wiki page. This is found by going to the File tab, Share, and using the Post to Blog option.

Users accessing your wiki pages need to have read access on the blog to be able to view the pictures.

This method doesn't require any special plug-ins or code, just uses the native features and integration between Word and Sharepoint.

Here is an example and here is another.

Answer 5

Perhaps the "BlueBridge Wiki Extensions" might help you. In the versions for SP 2013 and 2016 you can import Word documents to your wiki (enterprise wiki and standard wiki). PDF Export of one or more wiki pages is also integrated.

Answer 6

Looks like MS is unable to provide simple Office to HTML converter module for sharepoint 2013 wiki. To date I devised this solution to get something fast and clean: 1st stage require LibreOffice to batch-convert your .doc/.docx to .html

path to your LibreOffice\program\soffice.exe" --convert-to html your_file.doc

2nd, advanced stage if you want to clean up it, removing fonts and clutter, leaving heading marks and basic formatting (requires perl):

#!/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

open( T, '< :raw', $ARGV[0] ) or die "$ARGV[0]: $!";
my $out = $ARGV[0];
$out =~ s/\.html?$//i;

$out .= '.mswiki';

my $count = read(T, my $text, 999999999);
close( T );

if( !defined( $count ) || $count < 0 )
{
  die "Read error: $!";
}

$text =~ s/<([^\s>]+)[^>]*>/<$1>/gm; # remove tag attributes

$text =~ s/^.*<body>//s;
$text =~ s/<\/body>.*$//s;

$text =~ s/<\/?(col|font|img|span)>//gm; # completely remove unfixable
$text =~ s/\&nbsp;//gm;
$text =~ s/<([^p][^>]+)>\s*<\/\1>//gs; # remove tags w/o content

$text =~ s/<table>/<table border=1>/g;

open( O, '>', $out ) or die "$out: $!";
print O $text;
close( O );

Run in like:

clean4mswiki.pl your_converted_doc.html

This will produce clean your_converted_doc.mswiki file with less garbage.

I'm still working on automatic wiki poster tool, but it is 50/50 success rate as MS send too much cryptic data along the HTTP POST there.