Update: See my second post in this thread. It turns out that LibreOffice can do the trick quite nicely. Original post follows: Does anyone know of a command line or other utility for converting Word Perfect 5.1 documents to text or something else modern? I have a situation where I want to convert a few hundred WP5.1 documents and don't want to have to do them one by one. Please boost for reach. Thanks.
@jaybird110127 I've read that LibreOffice can do it, but I don't have LibreOffice nor any old Word Perfect files so I don't have first hand experience with it.
@kevinrj Yes LibreOffice can do it, but does it have a batch convertor? I don't want to have to convert these one by one.
@jaybird110127 LibreOffice is supposed to have a cli feature to do this
macos or linux
libreoffice --headless --convert-to txt *.wpd
Windows powershell
& "C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\soffice.exe" --headless --convert-to txt *.wpd
Jun 15, 2026, 6:10 PM@jaybird110127 I would try LibreOffice with the --headless and --convert-to options.