PDF Converter for use from .net application

Question

We have a project where we need to convert the following file types to PDF:

• application/msword .doc
• application/rtf .rtf
• application/vnd.ms-excel .xls
• application/vnd.ms-powerpoint .ppt
• application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation .odp
• application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet .ods
• application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text .odt
• application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation .pptx
• application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet .xlsx
• application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document .docx
• application/vnd.sun.xml.calc .sxc
• application/vnd.sun.xml.writer .sxw
• text/html .html
• text/plain .txt

We have found a number of tools / products, but none that can convert from all formats.

We would prefer a tool that had a .net API and could take a document as a byte array.

Does anyone have any product / tool that they would recomend?

Answer 1

We have used Aspose tools in many of our products and found them to be very good indeed. Aspose.com

Answer 2

Have you looked at Neevias Document Converter Pro?

It basically "prints" the documents to it's own printer, and converts the output to PDF. Therefore, anything you can print you can convert to PDF.

We have sites where it processes +50,000 documents per day.

Answer 3

Have a look at the PDF Converter Services. It runs as a Windows Service and can be accessed via a web services Interface so works with .net as well as Java.

It supports the majority of your formats. See this example.

Note that I have worked on this product so the usual disclaimers apply.