ASP.NET MVC - Export PDF to Word in C# and .NET
In the modern world of web applications, the ability to interact with documents in various formats is essential. One popular task is converting PDF files into editable formats like Word. This allows users to easily manage, copy, and share document content without the need for a dedicated PDF viewer.
ASP.NET MVC is a modern web application development framework renowned for its structure and extensibility. In conjunction with the PDF Focus .NET from SautinSoft library, one of the tasks is automatically exporting PDF documents to Word (DOCX), significantly enhancing the capabilities of your applications.
What is the PDF to Word export code useful for?
- Document automation: For example, automatically processing reports, contracts, or other official documents published in PDF format into an editable format.
- Accessibility: Converting PDF to Word allows all users to easily view and comply with requirements.
- Eliminate manual conversions: Automate the process instead of using PDF readers and manual copying.
- Integration with business processes: Automatically generate PDF documents or retrieve PDF data for further analysis.
Important aspects and tips:
- Library updates: Maintain the library up-to-date-new releases fix bugs and improve conversion quality.
- Error handling: Always implement error handling to ensure your application is resilient to errors.
- Data protection: When processing confidential documents, it is recommended to use standards and certificates.
- Compatibility testing: Test the conversion of typical files for your business, as formation requirements may gradually emerge.
Here we'll show you a simple ASP.NET MVC application to export PDF document into RTF format. The conversion process will be done in memory and the resulted RTF document will showed in a client's browser as an inline object.
Complete code
GitHubusing Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace FileUploadDownload
{
public class Program
{
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
CreateHostBuilder(args).Build().Run();
}
public static IHostBuilder CreateHostBuilder(string[] args) =>
Host.CreateDefaultBuilder(args)
.ConfigureWebHostDefaults(webBuilder =>
{
webBuilder.UseStartup<Startup>();
});
}
}
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