diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 # Headless LibreOffice / Microsoft Office
 
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-Headless (command line) operations by LibreOffice or Microsoft Office on Word, Excel, Powerpoint and most other
+Headless (command line) operations by LibreOffice or Microsoft Office on Word, Excel, PowerPoint and most other
 [formats LibreOffice can handle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#Supported_file_formats)
 for:
 
@@ -13,6 +13,16 @@ for:
 
 from Python command line using LibreOffice or Microsoft Word
 
+## standalone single file document to PDF
+
+For reuse in other programs and projects, we made a
+[separate standalone script doc2pdf.py](./doc2pdf.py)
+to convert any document that LibreOffice can handle to PDF.
+
+```sh
+python doc2pdf.py ~/mydoc.docx
+```
+
 ## .doc / .docx to PDF conversion
 
 Convert a directory of .doc / .docx to .pdf by:
@@ -40,5 +50,5 @@ For example to print all Markdown files in a directory with Notepad++:
 python -m loutils.doc2print ~/mydocs -s .md -exe notepad++
 ```
 
-LibreOffice 7.2 finally fixed file globbing, but we use explict for-looping to work with older LibreOffice.
+LibreOffice 7.2 finally fixed file globbing, but we use explicit for-looping to work with older LibreOffice.
 LibreOffice is not thread-safe, so documents are converted or printed one at a time.
diff --git a/doc2pdf.py b/doc2pdf.py
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@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+Single file standalone script to convert a text/document file to a PDF file using LibreOiffice.
+"""
+
+import subprocess
+import shutil
+import os
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+import argparse
+
+
+def get_lo_exe() -> str:
+    name = "soffice"
+
+    if os.name == "nt":
+        path = Path(os.environ["PROGRAMFILES"]) / "LibreOffice/program"
+    elif sys.platform == "darwin":
+        path = Path("/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS")
+    else:
+        path = None
+
+    if not (exe := shutil.which(name, path=path)):
+        raise FileNotFoundError("LibreOffice not found")
+
+    return exe
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    p = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Convert a document file to PDF using LibreOffice")
+    p.add_argument("filein", help="Input file")
+    p.add_argument("out_dir", help="Output directory", nargs="?")
+    args = p.parse_args()
+
+    filein = Path(args.filein).expanduser().resolve()
+
+    out_dir = Path(args.out_dir).expanduser().resolve() if args.out_dir else filein.parent
+
+    cmd = [get_lo_exe(), "--convert-to", "pdf", "--outdir", str(out_dir), str(filein)]
+
+    subprocess.check_call(cmd)