How to convert PDF to Word in C++

You can run PDFConvert command-line interface from many programming languages such as C++, C#, ASP, JAVA or Delphi etc.

The C++ source code below shows how to convert a PDF file ("c:\pdf\demo.pdf") to Word file ("c:\word\demo.docx"). This code has been tested in Microsoft Visual Studio 2013.

C++ source code sample:

#include "stdafx.h"

using namespace std;

#include "windows.h" // ShellExecute()
	
int main()
{
  //Replace PDFConvert directory, source PDF file name and output directory
  ShellExecute(NULL, _T("open"), _T("C:\\Program Files (x86)\\PDFConvert\\pdfconvert.exe"), _T(" /cs 10000 /i \"c:\\pdf\\demo.pdf\" /o \"c:\\word\" /pwo 2"), NULL, SW_SHOW);
  return 0;
}

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