I've tried the following. It involves the use of the convertapi library.
import convertapi
import os
import tempfile
convertapi.api_secret = 'my_secret'
print('Converting from .doc(x) to .odt')
odt_result = convertapi.convert('odt', { 'File': '/mnt/c/Users/username/Documents/TGMC.docx' })
odt_result.file.save('/mnt/c/Users/fvsha/Documents/TGMC2.odt') ~
While it worked, I noticed a change in the automatic chapter numbering. The original document had chapters 1 through 5. The new odt document had chapters 1.1-1.5 followed by chapter 2.
Two questions: What caused this and could you recommend a way to convert the file from .doc/.docx to .odt using Python without having to manually clean up everything afterwards? Thank you.