Use Nutrient DWS to convert DOCX and Word files into PDFs for contracts, reports, proposals, forms, and automated document processing workflows. Start with a cloud API that does not require Microsoft Office on your servers and fits naturally into REST, SDK, and batch conversion pipelines.
Handle common Word-to-PDF workflows for contracts, statements, reports, and generated documents with a task-specific cloud API page instead of a generic conversion landing page.
Use REST, Postman, JavaScript, Python, Java, C#, PHP, or HTTP to automate DOCX-to-PDF conversion in batch jobs, exports, archival workflows, and customer-facing document generation systems.
Evaluate a commercial Word conversion API without taking on Office server dependencies, renderer maintenance, or custom document-conversion infrastructure.
This example will convert your uploaded DOCX file to a PDF.
Try it out in three steps
document.docx to your project folder.result.pdf to see the output.curl -X POST https://api.nutrient.io/processor/convert_to_pdf \ -H "Content-Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer your_api_key_here" \ -o result.pdf \ --fail \ --data-binary @document.docxcurl -X POST https://api.nutrient.io/processor/convert_to_pdf ^ -H "Content-Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document" ^ -H "Authorization: Bearer your_api_key_here" ^ -o result.pdf ^ --fail ^ --data-binary @document.docxpackage com.example.pspdfkit;
import java.io.File;import java.io.IOException;import java.nio.file.FileSystems;import java.nio.file.Files;import java.nio.file.StandardCopyOption;
import org.json.JSONArray;import org.json.JSONObject;
import okhttp3.MediaType;import okhttp3.MultipartBody;import okhttp3.OkHttpClient;import okhttp3.Request;import okhttp3.RequestBody;import okhttp3.Response;
public final class PspdfkitApiExample { public static void main(final String[] args) throws IOException { final MediaType mediaType = MediaType.parse("application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document"); final RequestBody body = RequestBody.create( mediaType, new File("document.docx") );
final Request request = new Request.Builder() .url("https://api.nutrient.io/processor/convert_to_pdf") .method("POST", body) .addHeader("Content-Type", "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document") .addHeader("Authorization", "Bearer your_api_key_here") .build();
final OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient() .newBuilder() .build();
final Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();
if (response.isSuccessful()) { Files.copy( response.body().byteStream(), FileSystems.getDefault().getPath("result.pdf"), StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING ); } else { // Handle the error throw new IOException(response.body().string()); } }}using System;using System.IO;using System.Net;using RestSharp;
namespace PspdfkitApiDemo{ class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { var client = new RestClient("https://api.nutrient.io/processor/convert_to_pdf");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST) .AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer your_api_key_here") .AddFile("document.docx", "document.docx");
request.AdvancedResponseWriter = (responseStream, response) => { if (response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK) { using (responseStream) { using var outputFileWriter = File.OpenWrite("result.pdf"); responseStream.CopyTo(outputFileWriter); } } else { var responseStreamReader = new StreamReader(responseStream); Console.Write(responseStreamReader.ReadToEnd()); } };
client.Execute(request); } }}// This code requires Node.js. Do not run this code directly in a web browser.
const axios = require('axios')const FormData = require('form-data')const fs = require('fs')
const body = fs.createReadStream('document.docx')
;(async () => { try { const response = await axios.post('https://api.nutrient.io/processor/convert_to_pdf', body, { headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document', 'Authorization': 'Bearer your_api_key_here' }, responseType: "stream" })
response.data.pipe(fs.createWriteStream("result.pdf")) } catch (e) { const errorString = await streamToString(e.response.data) console.log(errorString) }})()
function streamToString(stream) { const chunks = [] return new Promise((resolve, reject) => { stream.on("data", (chunk) => chunks.push(Buffer.from(chunk))) stream.on("error", (err) => reject(err)) stream.on("end", () => resolve(Buffer.concat(chunks).toString("utf8"))) })}import requestsimport json
body = open('document.docx', 'rb')
response = requests.request( 'POST', 'https://api.nutrient.io/processor/convert_to_pdf', headers = { 'Content-Type': 'application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document', 'Authorization': 'Bearer your_api_key_here' }, data = body, stream = True)
if response.ok: with open('result.pdf', 'wb') as fd: for chunk in response.iter_content(chunk_size=8096): fd.write(chunk)else: print(response.text) exit()<?php
$FileHandle = fopen('result.pdf', 'w+');
$curl = curl_init();
$body = file_get_contents('document.docx');
curl_setopt_array($curl, array( CURLOPT_URL => 'https://api.nutrient.io/processor/convert_to_pdf', CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST', CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_ENCODING => '', CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $body, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array( 'Content-Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document', 'Authorization: Bearer your_api_key_here' ), CURLOPT_FILE => $FileHandle,));
$response = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
fclose($FileHandle);POST https://api.nutrient.io/processor/convert_to_pdf HTTP/1.1Content-Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.documentAuthorization: Bearer your_api_key_here
<document.docx contents>curl -X POST https://api.nutrient.io/build \ -H "Authorization: Bearer your_api_key_here" \ -o result.pdf \ --fail \ -F file=@document.docx \ -F instructions='{ "parts": [ { "file": "file" } ] }'curl -X POST https://api.nutrient.io/build ^ -H "Authorization: Bearer your_api_key_here" ^ -o result.pdf ^ --fail ^ -F file=@document.docx ^ -F instructions="{\"parts\": [{\"file\": \"file\"}]}"package com.example.pspdfkit;
import java.io.File;import java.io.IOException;import java.nio.file.FileSystems;import java.nio.file.Files;import java.nio.file.StandardCopyOption;
import org.json.JSONArray;import org.json.JSONObject;
import okhttp3.MediaType;import okhttp3.MultipartBody;import okhttp3.OkHttpClient;import okhttp3.Request;import okhttp3.RequestBody;import okhttp3.Response;
public final class PspdfkitApiExample { public static void main(final String[] args) throws IOException { final RequestBody body = new MultipartBody.Builder() .setType(MultipartBody.FORM) .addFormDataPart( "file", "document.docx", RequestBody.create( MediaType.parse("application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document"), new File("document.docx") ) ) .addFormDataPart( "instructions", new JSONObject() .put("parts", new JSONArray() .put(new JSONObject() .put("file", "file") ) ).toString() ) .build();
final Request request = new Request.Builder() .url("https://api.nutrient.io/build") .method("POST", body) .addHeader("Authorization", "Bearer your_api_key_here") .build();
final OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient() .newBuilder() .build();
final Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();
if (response.isSuccessful()) { Files.copy( response.body().byteStream(), FileSystems.getDefault().getPath("result.pdf"), StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING ); } else { // Handle the error throw new IOException(response.body().string()); } }}using System;using System.IO;using System.Net;using RestSharp;
namespace PspdfkitApiDemo{ class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { var client = new RestClient("https://api.nutrient.io/build");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST) .AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer your_api_key_here") .AddFile("file", "document.docx") .AddParameter("instructions", new JsonObject { ["parts"] = new JsonArray { new JsonObject { ["file"] = "file" } } }.ToString());
request.AdvancedResponseWriter = (responseStream, response) => { if (response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK) { using (responseStream) { using var outputFileWriter = File.OpenWrite("result.pdf"); responseStream.CopyTo(outputFileWriter); } } else { var responseStreamReader = new StreamReader(responseStream); Console.Write(responseStreamReader.ReadToEnd()); } };
client.Execute(request); } }}// This code requires Node.js. Do not run this code directly in a web browser.
const axios = require('axios')const FormData = require('form-data')const fs = require('fs')
const formData = new FormData()formData.append('instructions', JSON.stringify({ parts: [ { file: "file" } ]}))formData.append('file', fs.createReadStream('document.docx'))
;(async () => { try { const response = await axios.post('https://api.nutrient.io/build', formData, { headers: formData.getHeaders({ 'Authorization': 'Bearer your_api_key_here' }), responseType: "stream" })
response.data.pipe(fs.createWriteStream("result.pdf")) } catch (e) { const errorString = await streamToString(e.response.data) console.log(errorString) }})()
function streamToString(stream) { const chunks = [] return new Promise((resolve, reject) => { stream.on("data", (chunk) => chunks.push(Buffer.from(chunk))) stream.on("error", (err) => reject(err)) stream.on("end", () => resolve(Buffer.concat(chunks).toString("utf8"))) })}import requestsimport json
response = requests.request( 'POST', 'https://api.nutrient.io/build', headers = { 'Authorization': 'Bearer your_api_key_here' }, files = { 'file': open('document.docx', 'rb') }, data = { 'instructions': json.dumps({ 'parts': [ { 'file': 'file' } ] }) }, stream = True)
if response.ok: with open('result.pdf', 'wb') as fd: for chunk in response.iter_content(chunk_size=8096): fd.write(chunk)else: print(response.text) exit()<?php
$FileHandle = fopen('result.pdf', 'w+');
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array( CURLOPT_URL => 'https://api.nutrient.io/build', CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST', CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_ENCODING => '', CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => array( 'instructions' => '{ "parts": [ { "file": "file" } ] }', 'file' => new CURLFILE('document.docx') ), CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array( 'Authorization: Bearer your_api_key_here' ), CURLOPT_FILE => $FileHandle,));
$response = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
fclose($FileHandle);POST https://api.nutrient.io/build HTTP/1.1Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=--customboundaryAuthorization: Bearer your_api_key_here
--customboundaryContent-Disposition: form-data; name="instructions"Content-Type: application/json
{ "parts": [ { "file": "file" } ]}--customboundaryContent-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="document.docx"Content-Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
(file data)--customboundary--Straightforward API for converting to PDF. Perfect for most use cases.
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A DOCX-to-PDF API converts Word documents into PDF files with a single API call. With Nutrient’s DWS Processor API, you can convert DOCX to PDF server-side without installing Microsoft Office or building your own conversion infrastructure.
Send your DOCX file to the Nutrient DWS Processor API, and it returns a PDF. You can call it via REST, Postman, curl, JavaScript, Python, Java, C#, or PHP.
No. The API renders DOCX and Word files to PDF without any Microsoft Office dependency, so you can run conversions in any backend or container environment.
You can call the API from any language that can make HTTP requests. We provide quick start examples for JavaScript, Python, Java, C# (.NET), and PHP, plus REST and a Postman collection.
Yes. You can start for free — sign up to receive processing credits and try the DOCX-to-PDF API before choosing a Processor API plan.
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