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Dead plugin, but there's a better alternative with the LibreOffice converter that features 1:1 conversion from doc to odt (can convert from anything that it can read to anything that it can write, probably with a better quality than Python's internal conversion options).

Tested with the following batch on Windows. I don't know Python, but is there an easy option to adjust/fork the current "Microsoft Doc Input Plugin" to use LibreOffice in the background?

@echo off
REM search for documents in the "docs" folder where this batch is located
for /R docs %%f IN (*.doc) do if "%%~xf"==".doc" (
REM specific output directory
"C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\soffice" --convert-to odt --outdir "docs" "%%f"
REM LibreOffice --convert-to documentation
REM https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/...rtfilters.html
)

In Python probably sth. like this:

import subprocess # Import subprocess module
import os # We will use the exists() function from this module to know if the file was created.
def convert_doc_to_odt(file_path, output_dir):
    subprocess.run(
        f'/opt/libreoffice7.3/program/soffice \
        --headless \
        --convert-to odt \
        --outdir {output_dir} {file_path}', shell=True)
    
    pdf_file_path = f'{output_dir}{file_path.rsplit("/", 1)[1].split(".")[0]}.odt'
    
    if os.path.exists(pdf_file_path):
        return pdf_file_path
    else:
        return None
    
file_path = '/home/tarik/docs/file.docx'
output_dir = '/tmp/'
file = convert_doc_to_odt(file_path, output_dir)
if file:
    print(f'File converted to {file}.')
else:
    print('Unable to convert the file.')