How to convert MS doc to pdf

Question

How to convert doc to pdf using java api. where document contains various formats such as tables in ms word. when converting to pdf using iText. where actual document looks different to converted pdf. please provide any api not an exe installed for converting . must be an open source

Answer 1

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Answer 2

I haven't tried using it for MS Word, but I've had good success reading MS Excel documents using Apache POI - http://poi.apache.org/

Answer 3

This is quite a hard task, ever harder if you want perfect results (impossible without using Word) as such the number of APIs that just do it all for you in pure Java and are open source is zero I believe.

Your basic options are as follows:

1. Using JNI/a C# web service/etc script MS Office (only option for 100% perfect results)
2. Using the available APIs script Open Office (90+% perfect)
3. Use Apache POI & iText (very large job, will never be perfect).

Answer 4

Look into scripting OpenOffice.org to do the job for you.

Answer 5

I agree with posters listing OpenOffice as a high-fidelity import/export facility of word / pdf docs with a Java API and it also works across platforms. OpenOffice import/export filters are pretty powerful and preserve most formatting during conversion to various formats including PDF. Docmosis and JODReports value-add to make life easier than learning the OpenOffice API directly which can be challenging.

Answer 6

You can use JODConverter for this purpose. It can be used to convert documents between different office formats. such as:

1. Microsoft Office to OpenDocument, and vice versa
2. Any format to PDF
3. And supports many more conversion as well
4. It can also convert MS office 2007 documents to PDF as well with almost all formats

More details about it can be found here: http://www.artofsolving.com/opensource/jodconverter