How to convert any Document into PDF in Python

Our mission today is simple: set up a feature that will take in an Office document (XLSX, PPTX, DOCX, etc) or image and convert that file into a PDF. While you would usually be correct in thinking that this is a difficult task, I am here to show you a different and substantially easier way.

We start with our client’s installation:

pip install cloudmersive-convert-api-client

And following that we can proceed to call convert_document_autodetect_to_pdf, which is demonstrated right here:

from __future__ import print_function
import time
import cloudmersive_convert_api_client
from cloudmersive_convert_api_client.rest import ApiException
from pprint import pprint
# Configure API key authorization: Apikey
configuration = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['Apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
# Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
# configuration.api_key_prefix['Apikey'] = 'Bearer'
# create an instance of the API class
api_instance = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ConvertDocumentApi(cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ApiClient(configuration))
input_file = '/path/to/file' # file | Input file to perform the operation on.
try:
# Convert Document to PDF
api_response = api_instance.convert_document_autodetect_to_pdf(input_file)
pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
print("Exception when calling ConvertDocumentApi->convert_document_autodetect_to_pdf: %s\n" % e)

The only thing that’s left to do is input your desired file and run it, returning you the PDF!