Convert DOC and DOCX files to PDF with Nutrient DWS Processor API. Send a Word document over REST and receive a PDF without running Microsoft Office on your server.
Use one API workflow for legacy DOC files and current DOCX files, with PDF returned as the output.
Send conversion requests over REST from any language that can make HTTP requests, including JavaScript, Python, Java, C#, and PHP.
Run Word-to-PDF conversion without installing or maintaining Microsoft Office on the server that handles your documents.
This example converts a DOCX file to PDF. The same request accepts DOC files.
Try it out in three steps
document.docx to your project folder. Use a .doc file to test DOC input.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--Most common next steps
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Nutrient’s infrastructure is SOC 2 Type 2 audited and GDPR-compliant. See our privacy policy and security documentation for details on data handling.
All communication between your application and Nutrient is done via HTTPS to ensure your data is encrypted when it’s sent to us.
All payments are handled by Paddle. Nutrient DWS Processor API never has direct access to any of your payment data.
A Word-to-PDF API accepts a Word document and returns a PDF through an HTTP request. Nutrient DWS Processor API handles the conversion on the server.
The Word-to-PDF API accepts both DOC and DOCX files. The code example uses DOCX; use the same request shape with a DOC file for the legacy format.
No. The conversion runs in Nutrient DWS Processor API, so your server does not need a Microsoft Office installation.
Any language that can make HTTP requests can call the API. See the getting started guide and test the request with the Postman collection.
Processor API includes a free tier of 50 credits per month. Free-tier output is watermarked, and no credit card is required. See Processor API pricing for paid plans.
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