Description of Docto for Embarcadero Delphi Showcase

Docto was origionally written using Delphi 7 and now compiles without any issues on Delphi 10. It takes advantage of Delphis really good COM support to interact with Word and other Microsoft Office application for document conversion.

Origionally written for an internal requirement to have a simple way to convert Recipe Documents we have into PDFs, it was an obvious candidate once tidied up to provide as open source on Github.

Docto is a command line only application that interacts with Word via COM to open and resave files in alternative formats. Most people who use it convert from Word Documents to PDF but can Docto can convert from Text Files, HTML Files, RTF Files to Word Documents, HTML Files, XPS Files etc using Office as the conversion engine.

Delphi was the obvious programming language to develop this is as it has very comprehensive and straightforward COM support.