How to convert PDF to Word DOCX format in Python

On today’s agenda: conversion between PDF format and DOCX. While this is quite a headache to set up in the standard way, we have a nice solution for the problem that won’t take up more than a few minutes of your time. Let’s take a look.

Pip installation of our API client is first.

pip install cloudmersive-convert-api-client

Now we are going to call convert_document_pdf_to_docx, which is demonstrated 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 PDF to Word DOCX Document
api_response = api_instance.convert_document_pdf_to_docx(input_file)
pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
print("Exception when calling ConvertDocumentApi->convert_document_pdf_to_docx: %s\n" % e)

And finally… well that’s it really. Just input the file and you will get your PDF, simple as that. For over 200 other useful productivity-related functions like this, take a look at the documentation for the rest of this library.