PDF from Doc, DocX, RTF, TXT, XPS (Document to PDF)

Description: Convert DOC, DOCX, RTF, TXT, XPS files into PDF. GET or POST request.

Status Errors

Example

Sample Request:

! Don’t forget to set x-api-key url param or http header param (preferred) to API key, get yours here

POST
{
	"name" : "result.pdf",
	"url" : "https://bytescout-com.s3.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/doc-to-pdf/sample.docx"
}

Available methods

• [POST] /pdf/convert/from/doc

[POST] /pdf/convert/from/doc

• url required. URL to the source file. Supports links from Google Drive, Dropbox and from built-in PDF.co files storage. For uploading files via API please check Files Upload section. If you are randomly getting Too Many Requests or Access Denied error for your input url, please try to add cache: to enable built-in url caching.

• pages optional. Comma-separated list of page indices (or ranges) to process. IMPORTANT: the very first page starts at 0 (zero). To set a range use the dash -, for example: 0,2-5,7-. To set a range from index to the last page use range like this: 2- (from page #3 as the index starts at zero and till the of the document). For ALL pages just leave this param empty. Example: 0,2-5,7- means first page, then 3rd page to 6th page, and then the range from 8th (index = 7) page till the end of the document. Must be a String.

• name optional. File name for generated output. Must be a String.
• encrypt optional. Enable encryption for output file. Must be one of: true, false.
• async optional. Runs processing asynchronously. Returns Use JobId that you may use with /job/check to check state of the processing (possible states: working, failed, aborted and success). Must be one of: true, false.
• profiles optional. Must be a String. You can set additional and extra options using this parameter that allows you to set custom configuration. See profiles samples for examples.

Description

• Method: POST
• URL: /v1/pdf/convert/from/doc

Query parameters

No query parameters accepted.

Body payload

{
    "url": "https://bytescout-com.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/doc-to-pdf/sample.docx",
    "pages": "0-",
    "name": "result.pdf"
}

Example responses

POST /pdf/convert/from/doc

{
    "url": "https://pdf-temp-files.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/efc283805b4a47da87910826d4ddf063/result.pdf?X-Amz-Expires=3600&x-amz-security-token=FwoGZXIvYXdzEKz%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FwEaDFzXkfTapcUbLLKahiKBAbIL4F2wV3gvozuGDxmOpWUu9ETuVzkYKjMuNLAFzVZeSgRm9Yuaj7ubad9uOLQkL65GNgBQoy1Xm%2FxtLWD9tegUYd3hFvYfIWMfkWjuROwMGTZeD3CMacDPdFkP%2BUSG4aXOZb8MoG2PXnsd9UUeOvrevZkCVTg77OBXIteBCPOojSjeis%2F5BTIoVCi%2FrwV5kEGkbfBwtgsfQL3MxSbg7j%2Fud%2F3oGbUWW7zsemcfiHTiFg%3D%3D&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=ASIA4NRRSZPHAK44PZ6O/20200812/us-west-2/s3/aws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20200812T103301Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host;x-amz-security-token&X-Amz-Signature=6a176281828de74c917a4ff5bacd46eeca50221178bf34d01cac331f172e51c3",
    "pageCount": 1,
    "error": false,
    "status": 200,
    "name": "result.pdf",
    "remainingCredits": 61165
}

Code Snippets

CURL

curl --location --request POST 'https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/convert/from/doc' \
--header 'x-api-key: ' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "url": "https://bytescout-com.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/doc-to-pdf/sample.docx",
    "pages": "0-",
    "name": "result.pdf"
}'

JavaScript

var myHeaders = new Headers();
myHeaders.append("x-api-key", "");
myHeaders.append("Content-Type", "application/json");

var raw = JSON.stringify({
 "url": "https://bytescout-com.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/doc-to-pdf/sample.docx",
 "pages": "0-",
 "name": "result.pdf"
});

var requestOptions = {
	method: 'POST',
	headers: myHeaders,
	body: raw,
	redirect: 'follow'
};

fetch("https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/convert/from/doc", requestOptions)
	.then(response => response.text())
	.then(result => console.log(result))
	.catch(error => console.log('error', error));

NodeJs

var request = require('request');
var options = {
	'method': 'POST',
	'url': 'https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/convert/from/doc',
	'headers': {
		'x-api-key': '',
		'Content-Type': 'application/json'
	},
	body: JSON.stringify({
	 "url": "https://bytescout-com.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/doc-to-pdf/sample.docx",
	 "pages": "0-",
	 "name": "result.pdf"
	})

};
request(options, function (error, response) {
	if (error) throw new Error(error);
	console.log(response.body);
});

PHP

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
	CURLOPT_URL => 'https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/convert/from/doc',
	CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
	CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
	CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
	CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
	CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
	CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
	CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
	CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS =>'{
    "url": "https://bytescout-com.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/doc-to-pdf/sample.docx",
    "pages": "0-",
    "name": "result.pdf"
}',
	CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
		'x-api-key: ',
		'Content-Type: application/json'
	),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);
echo $response;

Java

import java.io.*;
import okhttp3.*;
public class main {
	public static void main(String []args) throws IOException{
		OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient().newBuilder()
			.build();
		MediaType mediaType = MediaType.parse("application/json");
		RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(mediaType, "{\n    \"url\": \"https://bytescout-com.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/doc-to-pdf/sample.docx\",\n    \"pages\": \"0-\",\n    \"name\": \"result.pdf\"\n}");
		Request request = new Request.Builder()
			.url("https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/convert/from/doc")
			.method("POST", body)
			.addHeader("x-api-key", "")
			.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
			.build();
		Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();
		System.out.println(response.body().string());
	}
}

C#

using System;
using RestSharp;
namespace HelloWorldApplication {
	class HelloWorld {
		static void Main(string[] args) {
			var client = new RestClient("https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/convert/from/doc");
			client.Timeout = -1;
			var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
			request.AddHeader("x-api-key", "");
			request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
			var body = @"{" + "\n" +
			@"    ""url"": ""https://bytescout-com.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/doc-to-pdf/sample.docx""," + "\n" +
			@"    ""pages"": ""0-""," + "\n" +
			@"    ""name"": ""result.pdf""" + "\n" +
			@"}";
			request.AddParameter("application/json", body,  ParameterType.RequestBody);
			IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
			Console.WriteLine(response.Content);
		}
	}
}

Python

import requests
import json

url = "https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/convert/from/doc"

payload = json.dumps({
 "url": "https://bytescout-com.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/doc-to-pdf/sample.docx",
 "pages": "0-",
 "name": "result.pdf"
})
headers = {
	'x-api-key': '',
	'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}

response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data=payload)

print(response.text)

Powershell

$headers = New-Object "System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary[[String],[String]]"
$headers.Add("x-api-key", "")
$headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

$body = "{`n    `"url`": `"https://bytescout-com.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/doc-to-pdf/sample.docx`",`n    `"pages`": `"0-`",`n    `"name`": `"result.pdf`"`n}"

$response = Invoke-RestMethod 'https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/convert/from/doc' -Method 'POST' -Headers $headers -Body $body
$response | ConvertTo-Json