diff --git a/apps/converter/conf/settings.py b/apps/converter/conf/settings.py
index f13cc2c76f..e9dcad1eaa 100644
--- a/apps/converter/conf/settings.py
+++ b/apps/converter/conf/settings.py
@@ -13,8 +13,6 @@ register_settings(
         {'name': u'GM_PATH', 'global_name': u'CONVERTER_GM_PATH', 'default': u'/usr/bin/gm', 'description': _(u'File path to graphicsmagick\'s program.'), 'exists': True},
         {'name': u'GM_SETTINGS', 'global_name': u'CONVERTER_GM_SETTINGS', 'default': u''},
         {'name': u'GRAPHICS_BACKEND', 'global_name': u'CONVERTER_GRAPHICS_BACKEND', 'default': u'converter.backends.python', 'description': _(u'Graphics conversion backend to use.  Options are: converter.backends.imagemagick, converter.backends.graphicsmagick and converter.backends.python.')},
-        {'name': u'UNOCONV_PATH', 'global_name': u'CONVERTER_UNOCONV_PATH', 'default': u'/usr/bin/unoconv', 'exists': True, 'description': _(u'Path to the unoconv program.')},
-        {'name': u'UNOCONV_USE_PIPE', 'global_name': u'CONVERTER_UNOCONV_USE_PIPE', 'default': True, 'description': _(u'Use alternate method of connection to LibreOffice using a pipe, it is slower but less prone to segmentation faults.')},
         {'name': u'LIBREOFFICE_PATH', 'global_name': u'CONVERTER_LIBREOFFICE_PATH', 'default': u'/usr/bin/libreoffice', 'exists': True, 'description': _(u'Path to the libreoffice program.')},
         
         #{'name': u'OCR_OPTIONS', 'global_name': u'CONVERTER_OCR_OPTIONS', 'default': u'-colorspace Gray -depth 8 -resample 200x200'},
diff --git a/apps/converter/office_converter.py b/apps/converter/office_converter.py
index bdf9e36419..f2d80bc16d 100644
--- a/apps/converter/office_converter.py
+++ b/apps/converter/office_converter.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ from mimetype.api import get_mimetype
 from common.conf.settings import TEMPORARY_DIRECTORY
 from common.utils import id_generator
 
-from .conf.settings import UNOCONV_PATH, UNOCONV_USE_PIPE, LIBREOFFICE_PATH
+from .conf.settings import LIBREOFFICE_PATH
 from .exceptions import (OfficeConversionError,
     OfficeBackendError, UnknownFileFormat)
 
@@ -79,47 +79,6 @@ class OfficeConverter(object):
         return str(self.__unicode__())
 
 
-class OfficeConverterBackendUnoconv(object):
-    def __init__(self):
-        self.unoconv_path = UNOCONV_PATH if UNOCONV_PATH else u'/usr/bin/unoconv'
-        if not os.path.exists(self.unoconv_path):
-            raise OfficeBackendError('cannot find unoconv executable')
-
-    def convert(self, input_filepath, output_filepath):
-        """
-        Executes the program unoconv using subprocess's Popen
-        """
-        self.input_filepath = input_filepath
-        self.output_filepath = output_filepath
-
-        command = []
-        command.append(self.unoconv_path)
-
-        if UNOCONV_USE_PIPE:
-            command.append(u'--pipe')
-            command.append(u'mayan-%s' % id_generator())
-
-        command.append(u'--format')
-        command.append(u'pdf')
-        command.append(u'--output')
-        command.append(self.output_filepath)
-        command.append(self.input_filepath)
-
-        try:
-            proc = subprocess.Popen(command, close_fds=True, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
-            return_code = proc.wait()
-            logger.debug('return_code: %s' % return_code)
-
-            readline = proc.stderr.readline()
-            logger.debug('stderr: %s' % readline)
-            if return_code != 0:
-                raise OfficeBackendError(readline)
-        except OSError, msg:
-            raise OfficeBackendError(msg)
-        except Exception, msg:
-            logger.error('Unhandled exception', exc_info=msg)
-
-
 class OfficeConverterBackendDirect(object):
     def __init__(self):
         self.libreoffice_path = LIBREOFFICE_PATH if LIBREOFFICE_PATH else u'/usr/bin/libreoffice'
diff --git a/docs/faq/index.rst b/docs/faq/index.rst
index f24adbae02..05dcbd9d60 100644
--- a/docs/faq/index.rst
+++ b/docs/faq/index.rst
@@ -151,20 +151,6 @@ Webserver
 OCR
 ---
 
-**Q: The included version of ``unoconv`` in my distribution is too old**
-      
-* Only the file 'unoconv' file from https://github.com/dagwieers/unoconv is needed.  
-  Put it in a user designated directory for binaries such as /usr/local/bin and 
-  setup Mayan's configuration option in your settings_local.py file like this::
-    
-    CONVERTER_UNOCONV_PATH = '/usr/local/bin/unoconv'
-    
-If you already have office or text documents uploaded into **Mayan EDMS**,
-after setting up and testing ``unoconv`` by hand, go to 'Tools',
-'Maintenance', 'Update office documents' page count', this will force a
-re-detection and re-processing of any document found to be of office format.   
-
-
 Deployments
 -----------
 
diff --git a/docs/releases/0.12.3.rst b/docs/releases/0.12.3.rst
index 349debb984..1a19a92ef4 100644
--- a/docs/releases/0.12.3.rst
+++ b/docs/releases/0.12.3.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Mayan EDMS v0.12.3 release notes
 ================================
 
-*October 2012*
+*December 2012*
 
 This is the third maintenance release of the 0.12 series.
 
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ their clients with customized setups without having to access their clients'
 **Mayan EDMS** instances.  ``JSON``, ``YAML`` and a custom ``YAML`` format
 (http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/2461/) are supported by this new app.
 
+#TODO: Add repository sync
+
 Translation updates
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 The translation for all the current languages were synchronized to the
@@ -77,6 +79,8 @@ is now more aptly named metadata members which adds or removes metadata types in
 single organizational unit.  An error that caused a duplicate menu link in the
 document type filename view was also fixed.
 
+#TODO: Add removal of UNOCONV
+
 Optimizations
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 Inspired by the idea of getting **Mayan EDMS** running effectively on low power hardware such as
diff --git a/docs/topics/document_visualization.rst b/docs/topics/document_visualization.rst
index 4cf5e1eb1b..834b58e920 100644
--- a/docs/topics/document_visualization.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/document_visualization.rst
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ The philosophy in place is to try to avoid having users download a documents and
 visualization tool too.  The conversion backend is a stack of functions,
 first the mimetype is evaluated, if it is an office document it is passed
 to LibreOffice_ working in headless mode (and managed by supervisor_)
-via unoconv_ (more information about ``unoconv`` can be found in the :doc:`FAQ section <../faq/index>`)
 for conversion to PDF_.  The PDF_ is stored in a temporary
 cache along side all the other files that were not office documents,
 from here they are inspected to determine the page count and the
@@ -39,5 +38,4 @@ which defaults to '/usr/bin/libreoffice'.
 
 .. _PDF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format
 .. _LibreOffice: http://www.libreoffice.org/
-.. _unoconv: https://github.com/dagwieers/unoconv/
 .. _supervisor: http://supervisord.org/introduction.html
diff --git a/docs/topics/settings.rst b/docs/topics/settings.rst
index d0f10a3438..ea60c91886 100644
--- a/docs/topics/settings.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/settings.rst
@@ -192,26 +192,6 @@ fine tune it's functionality as explained in the `GraphicsMagick documentation`_
 
 .. _GraphicsMagick documentation: http://www.graphicsmagick.org/convert.html#conv-opti
 
-    
-.. setting:: CONVERTER_UNOCONV_PATH
-
-
-**CONVERTER_UNOCONV_PATH**
-    
-Default: ``/usr/bin/unoconv``
-    
-Path to the unoconv program used to call LibreOffice for office document conversion.
-   
-    
-.. setting:: CONVERTER_UNOCONV_USE_PIPE
-
-
-**CONVERTER_UNOCONV_USE_PIPE**  
-    
-Default: ``True``
-    
-Use alternate method of connection to LibreOffice using a pipe, it is slower but less prone to segmentation faults.    
-
 
 .. setting:: CONVERTER_LIBREOFFICE_PATH