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ConvertAPI is a high-performance 200+ file format conversion and manipulation REST API service. It can be integrated into any application or platform using either our SDK libraries or plain HTTP requests. Use this tag for questions related to the ConvertAPI service. Please include all relevant tags on your question, e.g., programming language, file formats, etc.

ConvertAPI is a fast and fault-tolerant web service used by software developers to convert between MS Office, Open Office, and iWorks stack, as well as HTML documents, images, manipulate PDF files, and numerous other formats. Being a RESTful API, the service can be used with any programming language — C#, Java, Ruby, Python, PHP, JavaScript, Node.js, Kotlin, Go, etc.

ConvertAPI boasts 99.99% uptime since its launch in 2011. Such robustness is achieved due to the globally distributed, highly available platform, which can scale up or down to effectively process any amount of traffic. ConvertAPI is fully GDPR compliant.

You can find all supported file formats and conversions here: https://www.convertapi.com/doc/file-formats.

ConvertAPI provides official API libraries for all your favorite languages and frameworks:

We encourage you to build custom conversion workflows for multiple-stage file processing. This best-practice-driven REST API approach improves performance and gives you full control over file processing at any stage of the flow. You can also create ConvertAPI workflows on Zapier. Feel free to post Zapier related issues on SO too.

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Can the AuthPassword be hashed?

I am creating a web site that converts a web page to PDF and download it to the local server. Can the AuthPassword be hashed to kind of encrypt for security reasons?
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How to convert a file into binary format for sending it inside a POST request payload

I'm trying to use this API, which converts files between different formats. As part of the request, it expects the file in Binary format. I'm trying to figure out exactly what that means when it comes to C#. Everything I've read points to using a…
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Powerpoint upload stops at ~9MB with cURL -F

I have a problem using ConvertApi.com PowerPoint2Pdf conversion, when uploading files that are larger than 9MB. I can upload at least 43MB PowerPoint files through the browser form without problems, so it should not be a restriction in the API. If…
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Repeat THEAD on each PDF page, using convertApi

I would like to convert a large TABLE in PDF with a THEAD and TFOOT. A cannot have a good result with a THEAD part. In the PDF, after the first page, the TR are under the THEAD block. Someone have the same problem (and find a solution) ? Do I use…
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Convertapi Word2PDF in Java

I'm having problems reading the response from the server. If I use the StoreFile parameter and access via URL the PDF looks great, but serving it up through my own server always renders the pages blank. Possibly an encoding issue? def…
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DOC to PDF conversion using Jersey framework

I am building a simple Jersey application which converts DOC to PDF. I am using a API from http://www.convertapi.com . I would like to know how to send my file to the API.
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Convertapi Failed SSL Handshake in iOS 9

I am trying to get an image using ConvertApi to get an image from a webpage URL. My problem is that iOS >9 requires SSL for connections, and even ConvertAPI gives us https URLs, the SSL Handshake keeps failing. Here's my code to get the image: let…
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ConvertAPI/PHP code upload/download 0 bytes

I'm trying to call the ConvertAPI RESTful API using PHP/CURL to convert a form upload PDF to PNG. The file upload is working as the file is showing up on the server, but nothing is returned with curl_getinfo showing [size_upload] => 0 and…
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Using curb (rails gem) to convert a file with convertapi

I'm working on a Rails app to send Word files I have stored on Amazon S3 to convertapi for conversion into PDFs. I'm using the paperclip gem to manage the files, and the curb gem to make the actual request. # model with property has_attached_file…
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php code for powerpoint2pdf in convertapi not working

I use the following to convert a doc file to pdf in PHP: function CallToApi($fileToConvert, $pathToSaveOutputFile, $apiKey, &$message,$unique_filename) { try { $fileName = $unique_filename.".pdf"; $postdata = …
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ConvertApi Web2Pdf missint content when mulitiple pages are concatenated

I am using ConvertApi Web2Pdf for a wordpress site. When I use this tool Web2Pdf Api Tool with a single url, the page converts properly with all content and styling, but when I concatenate several together with %20 I lose some of the content. I…
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Recieving NETWORK_ERR:XMLHttpRequest Exception 101 error when using convert API

I am converting an HTML Document (That is dynamically generated from an API call) and using Convert API to convert the HTML page to a PDF. This has been working consistently till yesterday when with no code change I started getting this error from…
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How to use ConvertAPI Word2Pdf?

I'm trying to call ConvertAPI.com/Word2Pdf, but with no success. My sample code is: $fileToConvert = 'test.docx'; $apiKey = *******; $postdata = array('OutputFileName' => 'test.pdf', 'ApiKey' => $apiKey, 'File' => $fileToConvert); $ch =…
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Filepicker.io + Google Document View + ConvertAPI

I am trying to hack some code together to use Google Viewer to generate document previews for files uploaded with a filepicker. However, it keeps coming up blank. No matter what ConversionDelay value I pass in the image is always of an empty…
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Ruby Post file to server

I am new to Ruby and trying to post file from web app to another server using the code below but without any success - the file is not posted. How do to it correctly? uri = URI("http://do.convertapi.com/word2pdf") puts file_path req =…
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