Live Demo
You can see the live demo of the tool here
Get Started
In order to get started you need to install the libraries which are given below
npm i express
npm i multer
npm i libreoffice-convert
npm i nodemon
Now add some html code for the web application like this
<div class="col-md-4 col-sm-6 col-xs-12">
<div class="content colour-2">
<h3 class="text-center">PDF to DOCX DEMO</h3>
<div class="text-center">
<a class="btn btn-danger" href="/docxtopdfdemo">Convert Now</a>
</div>
</div>
</div><!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>DOCX to PDF Converter</title>
<link
rel="stylesheet"
href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/css/bootstrap.min.css"
/>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<h1 class="text-center">
DOCX to PDF Converter
</h1>
<form action="/docxtopdfdemo" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<div class="form-group">
<input type="file" name="file" id="" required class="form-control">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<button class="btn btn-danger btn-block">
Convert to DOCX
</button>
</div>
</form>
</div>
</body>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
</html>
const express = require("express");
const bodyParser = require("body-parser");
const libre = require('libreoffice-convert');
const fs = require("fs");
const path = require("path");
var outputFilePath;
const multer = require("multer");
const app = express();
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
const PORT = process.env.PORT || 5000;
app.use(express.static("public"));
var storage = multer.diskStorage({
destination: function (req, file, cb) {
cb(null, "public/uploads");
},
filename: function (req, file, cb) {
cb(
null,
file.fieldname + "-" + Date.now() + path.extname(file.originalname)
);
},
});
app.get('/docxtopdfdemo',(req,res) => {
res.render('docxtopdfdemo',{title:"DOCX to PDF Converter - Free Media Tools"})
})
const docxtopdfdemo = function (req, file, callback) {
var ext = path.extname(file.originalname);
if (
ext !== ".docx" &&
ext !== ".doc"
) {
return callback("This Extension is not supported");
}
callback(null, true);
};
const docxtopdfdemoupload = multer({storage:storage,fileFilter:docxtopdfdemo})
app.post('/docxtopdfdemo',docxtopdfdemoupload.single('file'),(req,res) => {
if(req.file){
console.log(req.file.path)
const file = fs.readFileSync(req.file.path);
outputFilePath = Date.now() + "output.pdf"
libre.convert(file,".pdf",undefined,(err,done) => {
if(err){
fs.unlinkSync(req.file.path)
fs.unlinkSync(outputFilePath)
res.send("some error taken place in conversion process")
}
fs.writeFileSync(outputFilePath, done);
res.download(outputFilePath,(err) => {
if(err){
fs.unlinkSync(req.file.path)
fs.unlinkSync(outputFilePath)
res.send("some error taken place in downloading the file")
}
fs.unlinkSync(req.file.path)
fs.unlinkSync(outputFilePath)
})
})
}
})
app.listen(PORT, () => {
console.log(`App is listening on Port ${PORT}`);
});
