Open MS Office Documents in a Web App

PSPDFKit for Web Server-Backed enables you to open Office documents. This capability is coming soon to PSPDFKit for Web Standalone. For more information, see our proof of concept.

The following table lists the supported Office file types.

As with PDF documents, Office documents can be annotated and then printed or exported to PDF for sharing.

The Office document must be first imported using the Server API. To create a new document from an Office file, POST its contents to /api/documents:

Request

curl -X POST http://localhost:5000/api/documents \
  -H "Authorization: Token token=<secret token>" \
  -F file=@document.doc \
  -o result.pdf

POST /api/documents HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=customboundary

--customboundary
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="document.doc"

<doc data>
--customboundary--

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "data": {
    "document_id": ...,
    "errors": [],
    "sourcePdfSha256": ...,
    "title": "..."
  }
}

Once uploaded, you can open the Office document like you would any other document from PSPDFKit Server. Refer to the Office-to-PDF conversion guide for a more detailed description of the Office conversion APIs.