Use Nutrient DWS to convert TXT text files into PDF documents when the workflow needs simple text content packaged into stable PDF output. Start with a cloud TXT-to-PDF API built for notes, text exports, plain-text reporting, and document-generation workflows.
Use a TXT-to-PDF API when the workflow needs plain-text content packaged into PDF output for delivery, reporting, printing, or archival use cases.
Use REST, Postman, JavaScript, Python, Java, C#, PHP, or HTTP to automate TXT-to-PDF conversion inside export, reporting, and document-generation systems.
Connect TXT conversion to getting started, pricing, and the broader PDF converter hub so teams can validate the right conversion path quickly.
This example will convert your uploaded TXT file to a PDF.
Try it out in three steps
document.txt 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/octet-stream" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer your_api_key_here" \ -o result.pdf \ --fail \ --data-binary @document.txtcurl -X POST https://api.nutrient.io/processor/convert_to_pdf ^ -H "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" ^ -H "Authorization: Bearer your_api_key_here" ^ -o result.pdf ^ --fail ^ --data-binary @document.txtpackage 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/octet-stream"); final RequestBody body = RequestBody.create( mediaType, new File("document.txt") );
final Request request = new Request.Builder() .url("https://api.nutrient.io/processor/convert_to_pdf") .method("POST", body) .addHeader("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream") .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.txt", "document.txt");
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.txt')
;(async () => { try { const response = await axios.post('https://api.nutrient.io/processor/convert_to_pdf', body, { headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/octet-stream', '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.txt', 'rb')
response = requests.request( 'POST', 'https://api.nutrient.io/processor/convert_to_pdf', headers = { 'Content-Type': 'application/octet-stream', '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();
$body = file_get_contents('document.txt');
curl_setopt_array($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/octet-stream', '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/octet-streamAuthorization: Bearer your_api_key_here
<document.txt contents>curl -X POST https://api.nutrient.io/build \ -H "Authorization: Bearer your_api_key_here" \ -o result.pdf \ --fail \ -F file=@document.txt \ -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.txt ^ -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.txt", RequestBody.create( MediaType.parse("application/octet-stream"), new File("document.txt") ) ) .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.txt") .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.txt'))
;(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.txt', '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.txt') ), 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.txt"Content-Type: application/octet-stream
(file data)--customboundary--Straightforward API for converting to PDF. Perfect for most use cases.
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A TXT-to-PDF API converts plain text files into PDF documents with a single API call. With Nutrient’s DWS Processor API, you can turn logs, exports, and raw text into formatted PDFs without your own conversion code.
Send your TXT 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.
Yes. The text content is laid out and paginated into a standards-compliant PDF, so long text files are split across pages without manual formatting.
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.
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