Office to PDF API

Accurate Word, PowerPoint and Excel to PDF conversions.

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Word, PowerPoint and Excel files

We do support all available Office formats: DOCX, DOC, PPTX, PPT, XLS, XLSX and many more. Besides converting to PDF, we do also support creating PNG or JPG thumbnails from Office documents.

High-Quality Conversions

Thanks to our advanced conversion technology the quality of the output PDF will be as good as if the PDF was saved through the latest Microsoft Office suite. Checkout our online converter and try it out with your own example files.

Async or Sync

By default, the CloudConvert API converts your files asynchronously and we notify you via webhooks when we are done. Depending on your needs there is also a synchronous API to convert files on-the-fly.

Storage Integration

CloudConvert directly fetches the input files from your object storage and then stores the output file at the same place. We are integrated with your existing and trusted storage provider, such as S3, Azure, Google Cloud or many others.

Custom Workflows

Our API uses the concept of Jobs and allows to do multiple operations with one single API call. For example, it is possible to convert the same file to multiple output formats, adding a watermark and creating a thumbnail with one single Job!

Developer Friendly

Our extensive API Documentation helps to get you started quickly. There is a Job Builder which generates ready-to-use request payloads and code snippets for you. We do provide free and timely support, directly from the builders of CloudConvert.

Raw Request PHP node.js Ruby Python Java .NET

POST https://sync.api.cloudconvert.com/v2/jobs
{
  "tasks": {
    "import-my-file": {
      "operation": "import/url",
      "url": "https://my.url/file.docx"
    },
    "convert-my-file": {
      "operation": "convert",
      "input": "import-my-file",
      "input_format": "docx",
      "output_format": "pdf"
    },
    "export-my-file": {
      "operation": "export/url",
      "input": "convert-my-file"
    }
  },
  "redirect": true
}
<?php
$job = (new Job())
    ->addTask(
        (new Task('import/url', 'import-my-file'))
            ->set('url', 'https://my.url/file.docx')
    )
    ->addTask(
        (new Task('convert', 'convert-my-file'))
            ->set('input', 'import-my-file')
            ->set('input_format', 'docx')
            ->set('output_format', 'pdf')
    )
    ->addTask(
        (new Task('export/url', 'export-my-file'))
            ->set('input', 'convert-my-file')
    );

$cloudconvert->jobs()->create($job);
let exampleJob = await cloudConvert.jobs.create({
    "tasks": {
        "import-my-file": {
            "operation": "import/url",
            "url": "https://my.url/file.docx"
        },
        "convert-my-file": {
            "operation": "convert",
            "input": "import-my-file",
            "output_format": "pdf"
        },
        "export-my-file": {
            "operation": "export/url",
            "input": "convert-my-file"
        }
    }
});

job = await cloudConvert.jobs.wait(job.id);
job = cloudconvert.jobs.create({
  tasks: [
    {
      name: "import-my-file",
      operation: "import/url",
      url: "https://my-url/file.docx"
    },
    {
      name: "convert-my-file",
      operation: "convert",
      input: "import-my-file",
      input_format: "docx",
      output_format: "pdf"
    },
    {
      name: "export-my-file",
      operation: "export/url",
      input: "convert-my-file"
    },
  ]
})
job = cloudconvert.Job.create(payload={
     "tasks": {
         'import-my-file': {
              'operation': 'import/url',
              'url': 'https://my.url/file.docx'
         },
         'convert-my-file': {
             'operation': 'convert',
             'input': 'import-my-file',
             'input_format': 'docx',
             'output_format': 'pdf'
         },
         'export-my-file': {
             'operation': 'export/url',
             'input': 'convert-my-file'
         }
     }
 })
final JobResponse createJobResponse = cloudConvertClient.jobs().create(
    ImmutableMap.of(
        "import-my-file",
            new UrlImportRequest()
                .setUrl("https://my.url/file.docx"),
        "convert-my-file",
            new ConvertFilesTaskRequest()
                .setInput("import-my-file")
                .setInputFormat("docx"),
                .setOutputFormat("pdf"),
        "export-my-file",
            new UrlExportRequest()
                .setInput("convert-my-file")
    )
).getBody();
var job = await CloudConvert.CreateJobAsync(new JobCreateRequest
      {
        Tasks = new
        {
          import_it = new ImportUrlCreateRequest
          {
            Url = "https://my.url/file.docx"
          },
          convert = new ConvertCreateRequest
          {
            Input = "import_it",
            Input_Format = "docx",
            Output_Format = "pdf"
          },
          export_it = new ExportUrlCreateRequest
          {
            Input = "convert"
          }
        }
      });

Use our Job Builder to generate ready-to-use requests and code snippet for the CloudConvert API.

Job Builder API Documentation
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