RobyDocConverter

The problem

Files arrive in the wrong format, and usually at the worst moment. An old .doc that a modern editor mangles, a document somebody needs as something else, a folder of forty files that all need the same treatment.

Converting them one at a time through a website means uploading, waiting, downloading and repeating. Forty times.

The solution

One place to drop the files and choose what you need out the other end, including whole batches at once.

What it does

• Converts documents between formats, including the old .doc format into .docx.
• Handles many files in one go rather than one at a time.
• Gives the converted files straight back, ready to use.

How it works

• Choose the files, choose the format you want, and it does the rest.
• A batch is treated as one job, so forty files are one action rather than forty.

Why it is useful

The old .doc format is still everywhere — in archives, in email from institutions, in files somebody saved in 2009. Modern software opens it badly or not at all.

Doing this by hand is not difficult, it is only slow. Slow multiplied by forty is an afternoon.