Convert Microsoft Word document to PDF using Python

Question

I have tons of Word and Excel files. I want to convert many Word files in folders by sub folders to PDF, and I try following code.

This code is not active (I mean there aren't Word convert to PDF) although no error.

What could be the problem? Is there another solution?

This is my code:

import os
from win32com import client
path = 'D:\programing\test'
word_file_names = []
word = client.DispatchEx("Word.Application")
for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(path):
    print (dirpath)
    for f in filenames:
        if f.lower().endswith(".docx") and re.search('Addendum', f):
            new_name = f.replace(".docx", r".pdf")
            in_file = word_file_names.append(dirpath + "\\" + f)
            new_file = word_file_names.append(dirpath + "\\" + new_name)
            doc = word.Documents.Open(in_file)
            doc.SaveAs(new_file, FileFormat = 17)
            doc.Close()
        if f.lower().endswith(".doc") and re.search('Addendum', f):
            new_name = f.replace(".doc", r".pdf")
            in_file = word_file_names.append(dirpath + "\\" + f)
            new_file = word_file_names.append(dirpath + "\\" + new_name)
            doc = word.Documents.Open(in_file)
            doc.SaveAs(new_file, FileFormat = 17)
            doc.Close()
    word.Quit()

This question has been answered before and this may help you: stackoverflow.com/questions/6011115/doc-to-pdf-using-python — liagason
– liagason, Commented Oct 31, 2018 at 6:37
Is there any output at all? Can you show the stuff being printed? Have you tried running this in a debugger? — OneCricketeer
– OneCricketeer, Commented Oct 31, 2018 at 8:01
You have commented out the except block, are you sure the code is not throwing any error? — Ankit Jaiswal
– Ankit Jaiswal, Commented Oct 31, 2018 at 10:12
ok ankit , i have summarized my code for important thing only (look agin), if you can help — Youssri Abo Elseod
– Youssri Abo Elseod, Commented Oct 31, 2018 at 10:23

pyroshark · Accepted Answer · 2020-11-02 07:59:36Z

3

This is way easier:

from docx2pdf import convert

convert(word_path, pdf_path)

answered Nov 2, 2020 at 7:59

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Alvin Wanda Over a year ago

ps, this needs microsoft word to be installed to work. otherwise, was exactly what i was looking for.

PyMatFlow Over a year ago

You can use 'convert(Output_folder)' to convert all word files in a folder

Mxblsdl Over a year ago

Do you have any idea about how to export with Bookmarks? This is an option when exporting from Word, but not sure if this option exists within win32.

LF-DevJourney · Accepted Answer · 2019-11-12 03:56:28Z

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You can use comtypes,

from comtypes.client import CreateObject
import os

folder = "folder path"
wdToPDF = CreateObject("Word.Application")
wdFormatPDF = 17
files = os.listdir(folder)
word_files = [f for f in files if f.endswith((".doc", ".docx"))]
for word_file in word_files:
    word_path = os.path.join(folder, word_file)
    pdf_path = word_path
    if pdf_path[-3:] != 'pdf':
        pdf_path = pdf_path + ".pdf"

    if os.path.exists(pdf_path):
        os.remove(pdf_path)

    pdfCreate = wdToPDF.Documents.Open(word_path)
    pdfCreate.SaveAs(pdf_path, wdFormatPDF)

answered Nov 12, 2019 at 3:56

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Youssri Abo Elseod · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-01 10:54:43Z

i solved this problem and fixed the code has following

import os
import win32com.client
import re
path = (r'D:\programing\test')
word_file_names = []
word = win32com.client.Dispatch('Word.Application')
for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(path):
    for f in filenames:  
        if f.lower().endswith(".docx") :
            new_name = f.replace(".docx", ".pdf")
            in_file =(dirpath + '/'+ f)
            new_file =(dirpath + '/' + new_name)
            doc = word.Documents.Open(in_file)
            doc.SaveAs(new_file, FileFormat = 17)
            doc.Close()
        if f.lower().endswith(".doc"):
            new_name = f.replace(".doc", ".pdf")
            in_file =(dirpath +'/' + f)
            new_file =(dirpath +'/' + new_name)
            doc = word.Documents.Open(in_file)
            doc.SaveAs(new_file, FileFormat = 17)
            doc.Close()
word.Quit()

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