Developer guide

🐘 PDF to DOCX with PHP

Transform your PDF documents into editable Microsoft Word (DOCX) files with our free online converter. Perfect for editing and reformatting documents.

PHPREST APIPDF → DOCX

Use this guide to convert PDF to DOCX with PHP, then adapt the example to your own app, backend, or processing flow.

Overview

What this guide covers

Conversion path

Use Converterer to accept or prepare a PDF file, trigger a PDF to DOCX job, and return the output to your app or workflow.

PHP example

Start with the example on this page, then adapt auth, file handling, polling, and result delivery to your environment.

Production usage

This is best suited to backend jobs, async processing, content pipelines, and repeatable conversion flows rather than one-off browser scripting.

Quick start

Get a working example in place

Code example

PDF to DOCX

<?php
$ch = curl_init('https://api.converterer.com/convert');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_USERPWD => getenv('CONVERTERER_API_KEY') . ':',
    CURLOPT_POST => true,
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => [
        'input' => new CURLFile('input.pdf'),
        'output_format' => 'docx',
    ],
]);

$task = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
echo $task['id'];
// Result lands at <your-destination>/<id>.docx

Implementation notes

What to handle in your app

API endpoint

Conversion endpoint

https://api.converterer.com/convert

Use your API key for authentication and submit the source file plus the target output format in your job request.

App responsibilities

source file upload or storage handoff
job submission and status handling
success/failure handling in your backend
download or delivery of the DOCX output

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