script to recursively convert word docs to pdfs

prerequisites:  you have to have ms office with the version which lets you save docs as pdf  

 two steps  

first create this script file to use ms office plugin  and name it as conv.js


var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
var docPath = WScript.Arguments(0);
docPath = fso.GetAbsolutePathName(docPath);

var pdfPath = docPath.replace(/\.doc[^.]*$/, ".pdf");
var objWord = null;

try
{
    WScript.Echo("Saving '" + docPath + "' as '" + pdfPath + "'...");

    objWord = new ActiveXObject("Word.Application");
    objWord.Visible = false;

    var objDoc = objWord.Documents.Open(docPath);

    var wdFormatPdf = 17;
    objDoc.SaveAs(pdfPath, wdFormatPdf);
    objDoc.Close();

    WScript.Echo("Done.");
}
finally
{
    if (objWord != null)
    {
        objWord.Quit();
    }
}



then run this powershell command

Get-ChildItem -rec | Where-object {!$_.psIsContainer -eq $true  }  | ForEach-Object  -Process {$_.FullName} | %{cscript //nologo conv.js $_}