How to convert PDF to Word in PHP

You can run PDFConvert command-line interface from many programming languages such as C++, C#, ASP, JAVA or Delphi etc.

You need to install PHP for IIS or Apache on Windows. Please make sure that PHP is not running in safe mode. Function Shell_exec is disabled when PHP is running in safe mode.

The PHP source code below shows how to convert a PDF file ("c:\pdf\demo.pdf") to Word file ("c:\word\demo.docx").

PHP source code sample:

  <?php
    ;Replace PDFConvert directory, source PDF file name and output directory
    $blah = shell_exec("\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\PDFConvert\\pdfconvert.exe\" /cs 10000 /i \"c:\\pdf\\demo.pdf\" /o \"c:\\word\" /pwo 2");
  ?>

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