Convert PDF to Microsoft Word Documents in C++

Overview

This article explains how to convert PDF to Microsoft Word Documents using C++. It covers these topics.

Format: DOC

Format: DOCX

Format: Microsoft Word DOC format

Format: Microsoft Word DOCX format

Other topics covered by this article

C++ PDF to Word Conversions

One of the most popular feature is PDF to Microsoft Word DOC conversion, which makes the content easy to manipulate. Aspose.PDF for C++ allows you to convert PDF files to DOC.

Convert PDF to DOC (Word 97-2003) file

Convert PDF file to DOC format with ease and full control. Aspose.PDF for C++ is flexible and supports a wide variety of conversions. Converting pages from PDF documents to images, for example, is a very popular feature.

A conversion that many of our customers have requested is PDF to DOC: converting a PDF file to a Microsoft Word document. Customers want this because PDF files cannot easily be edited, whereas Word documents can. Some companies want their users to be able to manipulate text, tables and images in files that started as PDFs.

Keeping alive the tradition of making things simple and understandable, Aspose.PDF for C++ lets you transform a source PDF file into a DOC file with two lines of code. To accomplish this feature, we have introduced an enumeration named SaveFormat and its value .Doc lets you save the source file to Microsoft Word format.

The following C++ code snippet shows the process of converting a PDF file into DOC format.

Steps: Convert PDF to DOC in C++ | Steps: Convert PDF to Microsoft Word DOC format in C++

  1. Create an instance of Document object with the source PDF document.
  2. Save it to SaveFormat::Doc format by calling Document->Save() method.
void ConvertPDFtoWord()
{
    std::clog << __func__ << ": Start" << std::endl;
    // String for path name
    String _dataDir("C:\\Samples\\Conversion\\");

    // String for file name
    String infilename("sample.pdf");
    String outfilename("PDFToDOC.doc");

    // Open document
    auto document = MakeObject<Document>(_dataDir + infilename);

    try {
        // Save the file into MS document format
        document->Save(_dataDir + outfilename, SaveFormat::Doc);
    }
    catch (Exception ex) {
        std::cerr << ex->get_Message();
    }

    std::clog << __func__ << ": Finish" << std::endl;
}

The following code snippet shows the process of converting PDF file into DOC Advanced version:

void ConvertPDFtoWordDocAdvanced()
{
    std::clog << __func__ << ": Start" << std::endl;
    // String for path name
    String _dataDir("C:\\Samples\\Conversion\\");

    // String for file name
    String infilename("sample.pdf");
    String outfilename("PDFToDOC.doc");

    // Open document
    auto document = MakeObject<Document>(_dataDir + infilename);

    auto saveOptions = MakeObject<DocSaveOptions>();
    saveOptions->set_Format(DocSaveOptions::DocFormat::Doc);
    // Set the recognition mode as Flow
    saveOptions->set_Mode(DocSaveOptions::RecognitionMode::Flow);
    // Set the Horizontal proximity as 2.5
    saveOptions->set_RelativeHorizontalProximity(2.5f);
    // Enable the value to recognize bullets during conversion process
    saveOptions->set_RecognizeBullets(true);

    try {
        // Save the file into MS document format
        document->Save(_dataDir + outfilename, saveOptions);
    }
    catch (Exception ex) {
        std::cerr << ex->get_Message();
    }

    std::clog << __func__ << ": Finish" << std::endl;
}

Convert PDF to DOCX

Aspose.PDF for C++ API lets you read and convert PDF documents to DOCX using C++ language. DOCX is a well-known format for Microsoft Word documents whose structure was changed from plain binary to a combination of XML and binary files. Docx files can be opened with Word 2007 and lateral versions but not with the earlier versions of MS Word which support DOC file extensions.

The following C++ code snippet shows the process of converting a PDF file into DOCX format.

Steps: Convert PDF to DOCX in C++ | Steps: Convert PDF to Microsoft Word DOCX format in C++

  1. Create an instance of Document object with the source PDF document.
  2. Save it to SaveFormat::DocX format by calling Document->Save() method.
void ConvertPDFtoWord_DOCX_Format()
{
    std::clog << __func__ << ": Start" << std::endl;
    // String for path name
    String _dataDir("C:\\Samples\\Conversion\\");

    // String for file name
    String infilename("sample.pdf");
    String outfilename("PDFToDOC.docx");

    // Open document
    auto document = MakeObject<Document>(_dataDir + infilename);

    try {
        // Save the file into MS document format
        document->Save(_dataDir + outfilename, SaveFormat::DocX);
    }
    catch (Exception ex) {
        std::cerr << ex->get_Message();
    }

    std::clog << __func__ << ": Finish" << std::endl;
}

The DocSaveOptions class has a property named Format which provides the capability to specify the format of the resultant document, that is, DOC or DOCX. In order to convert a PDF file to DOCX format, please pass the Docx value from the DocSaveOptions.DocFormat enumeration.

Please take a look over the following code snippet which provides the capability to convert PDF file to DOCX format with C++.

void ConvertPDFtoWord_Advanced_DOCX_Format()
{
    std::clog << __func__ << ": Start" << std::endl;
    // String for path name
    String _dataDir("C:\\Samples\\Conversion\\");

    // String for file name
    String infilename("sample.pdf");
    String outfilename("PDFToDOC.docx");

    // Open document
    auto document = MakeObject<Document>(_dataDir + infilename);

    auto saveOptions = MakeObject<DocSaveOptions>();
    saveOptions->set_Format(DocSaveOptions::DocFormat::DocX);

    // Set other DocSaveOptions params
    // ...

    // Save the file into MS document format

    try {
        // Save the file into MS document format
        document->Save(_dataDir + outfilename, saveOptions);
    }
    catch (Exception ex) {
        std::cerr << ex->get_Message();
    }

    std::clog << __func__ << ": Finish" << std::endl;
}

See Also

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