Nodejs Convert Doc to PDF

Question

I discovered a few repositories that don't appear to be active anymore:

https://github.com/gfloyd/node-unoconv
https://github.com/skmp/node-msoffice-pdf/
I tried using libreoffice for this, but the pdf output is so terrible that it's useless (text on diff. pages etc.).

I'd like to avoid initiating any background processes and/or saving the file to the server if at all possible. The best solution would be one that allows me to employ buffers. I am unable to use any external service due to concerns about privacy.

doc buffer -> pdf buffer

How to convert docs to pdf in nodejs?

Answer 1

For anybody who may come across this question today:

Gotenberg is a useful utility that uses Docker to provide a stateless API for converting HTML, Markdown, and Office documents to PDF. It supports unoconv for DOC conversion.

I'm also the inventor of gotenberg-js-client, a JS/TS client for Gotenberg.

You are welcome to use it:)

Gotenberg currently has a new website: https://gotenberg.dev.

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