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Free online DOC to DOCX conversion via perl

Use free online app or Perl SDK to convert between DOC & DOCX as well as several popular formats from Microsoft® Word.

Perl Code for Converting DOC to DOCX 

# Converting DOC to HTML
binmode(DATA);
# while( read (DATA, $Book1_data, 8)) {};
read (DATA, $Book1_data, $filelength);
close (DATA);    
my $folder = $TEMPFOLDER; # replace NULL with a proper value
# ready_file('api'=> $api, 'file'=>$name + ".DOC" ,'folder' =>$folder) ;
%!(EXTRA string=HTML)
    # Converting HTML to DOCX
binmode(DATA);
# while( read (DATA, $Book1_data, 8)) {};
read (DATA, $Book1_data, $filelength);
close (DATA);    
my $folder = $TEMPFOLDER; # replace NULL with a proper value
# ready_file('api'=> $api, 'file'=>$name + ".HTML" ,'folder' =>$folder) ;
%!(EXTRA string=DOCX)

How to convert DOC to DOCX online in Cloud Apps

  1. Initialize WordsApi and CellsApi with Client Id, Client Secret, Base URL & API version
  2. Set ConvertDocumentRequest with parameters local file name and format as HTML
  3. Call WordsApi convertDocument to convert DOC document to HTML
  4. Initialize SaveOption from CellsAPI with parameters SaveFormat as DOCX
  5. Call cellsSaveAsPostDocumentSaveAs method to convert DOC file to DOCX

Get Started with Aspose.Total REST APIs

  1. Create an account at Dashboard to get free API quota & authorization details
  2. Get Aspose.Words and Aspose.Cells Cloud SDKs for Perl source code from Aspose.Words GitHub and Aspose.Cells GitHub repos to compile/use the SDK yourself or head to the Releases for alternative download options.
  3. Also have a look at Swagger-based API Reference for Aspose.Words and Aspose.Cells to know more about the REST API.

How to Convert Word DOC to other formats online

You can use Aspose.Words to transform DOC files into HTML format. Then, you can input the HTML files to any of the APIs in Aspose.Total, such as Aspose.Cells, Aspose.PDF, Aspose.Email, Aspose.Slides, Aspose.Diagram, Aspose.Tasks, Aspose.3D, Aspose.HTML. This will allow you to output the files in hundred of different formats.

To see the full list of supported formats, please check the Aspose.Total Cloud page.

How to Convert MS Word DOC to Image formats

Aspose.Words Cloud SDK produces few quick and easy ways to convert MS Word files to various image formats similar to what we have done above for DOCX: by direct REST API calls or using SDKs. There are multiple image formats accessible for converting Word documents with Aspose.Words Cloud APIs - JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF, and TIFF.

  1. Create ConvertDocumentRequest object to convert DOC document
  2. Call ConvertDocument method of WordsApi class instance for conversion from DOC

How to Convert DOC to PDF online

For DOC to PDF, you need to go to the web page DOC to PDF and upload the DOC file from your device. Then, you need to click on the “Convert” button and wait for the conversion to finish. After that, you can download the PDF file to your device.

How to Convert Webpage to DOCX format

For Webpage to DOCX format conversion, you need to go to the website Webpage to DOCX and enter the URL of the webpage you want to convert in the input box. Then, you need to click on the “Convert” button and wait for the conversion to finish. After that, you can download the DOCX file to your device.

FAQ

  • What is DOC Format?
    Files with .doc extension represent documents generated by Microsoft Word or other word processing documents in binary file format. The extension was initially used for plain text documentation on several different operating systems. It can contain several different types of data such as images, formatted as well as plain text, graphs, charts, embedded objects, links, pages, page formatting, print settings and a lot others.
  • What is DOCX Format?
    DOCX is a well-known format for Microsoft Word documents. Introduced from 2007 with the release of Microsoft Office 2007, the structure of this new Document format was changed from plain binary to a combination of XML and binary files. Docx files can be opened with Word 2007 and lateral versions but not with the earlier versions of MS Word which support DOC file extensions.
  • How can I get started with Aspose.Total REST APIs?
    Quickstart not only guides through the initialization of Aspose.Total Cloud API, it also helps in installing the required libraries.
  • Where can I see the release notes for Aspose.Total Cloud API?
    Complete release notes can be reviewed at Aspose.Total Cloud Documentation.
  • Is it safe to convert DOC to DOCX in the Cloud?
    Of course! Aspose Cloud uses Amazon EC2 cloud servers that guarantee the security and resilience of the service. Please read more about Aspose's Security Practices.
  • What file formats are supported by Aspose.Total Cloud API?
    Aspose.Total Cloud can convert file formats from any product family to any other product family to PDF, DOCX, XPS, image(TIFF, JPEG, PNG BMP), MD and more. Checkout the complete list of supported file formats.
  • I can not find the SDK for my favorite language. What should I do?
    Aspose.Total Cloud is also available as a Docker Container. Try using it with cURL in case your required SDK is not available yet.