Converting Microsoft Word documents to PDF programmatically – server side.
We couldn’t find one plain and simple example on the web so we’re posting it here in case it helps someone. Our requirements:
converting DOC and DOCX to PDF from command line, server side.
No X of course. (LibreOffice excluded).
Not just DOC (Antiword excluded).
Debian packages whenever possible (python-docx excluded).
Log in to your server:
sudo apt-get install abiword abiword --to=pdf --to-name=<your_document_name.pdf> <your_document_name.docx>
That should give you “your_document_name.pdf”. We’re just interested in extracting text, so we’re not sure about format quality.
Enjoy!