How to bulk convert Word Documents to PDF

[Sonic007]

Hi,

 

Does anyone know of a good way to convert Word documents to PDF. We have about 700 documents that need PDF'ing.

 

Thanks all.

[TechMonkey]

Powershell?

$documents_path = 'c:\doc2pdf'

 

$word_app = New-Object -ComObject Word.Application

 

# This filter will find .doc as well as .docx documents

Get-ChildItem -Path $documents_path -Filter *.doc? | ForEach-Object {

 

$document = $word_app.Documents.Open($_.FullName)

 

$pdf_filename = "$($_.DirectoryName)\$($_.BaseName).pdf"

 

$document.SaveAs([ref] $pdf_filename, [ref] 17)

 

$document.Close()

}

 

$word_app.Quit()

From https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16534292/basic-powershell-batch-convert-word-docx-to-pdf

[DalekSec]

Adobe?

 

I can right click on multiple Docx files in file explorer and hit convert to Adobe PDF, then it goes through them. Do have to save each one manually so will take a bit of time. But with 700 its going to take awhile no matter what!

[slugshead]

Ctrl + A > right click > Convert to Adobe PDF

 

* Requires Acrobat Pro

[mavhc]

Simplest? Install pdf printer that can be configured to auto save, select multiple, right click, print

 

I used https://github.com/AlJohri/docx2pdf which I've modifed to also do pdf2docx

[Sonic007]

Ctrl + A > right click > Convert to Adobe PDF

 

* Requires Acrobat Pro

 

 

Yeah that would be good but don't have Adobe Pro.

 

- - - Updated - - -

 

I tried the Print to PDF printer but it will only let you select about 10 files at a time. Any more and the Print option dissapears.

[TechMonkey]

Print them out, scan to PDF?

[DalekSec]

Print them out, scan to PDF?

 

You joke, we legit had a PE teacher do this awhile back

[robyholmes]

Microsoft Flow can do this too. We use it to export school policies automatically ready for the website. Now just need to get it to replace them on the website!

[mavhc]

Print them out, scan to PDF?

 

What's the opposite of Thank Post?

[Danp]

You joke, we legit had a PE teacher do this awhile back

 

Seen this too

[andy_b]

https://www.gmayor.com/document_batch_processes.htm

 

(Merge and split is useful too https://www.gmayor.com/MergeAndSplit.htm)

[fiza]

We use the method 1 (vb script) shown on this site. Works really well.

 

https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/how-to-batch-convert-word-documents-into-pdf-files/

[Sonic007]

Thanks all.

 

I ended up finding a free piece of software called MultiDoc Convertor made by Pawel Idzikowski.

This does the job and doesnt add any watermarks or have any limits so is great!

[jthompson]

Format Factory has this option. Never actually tried it for docx to pdf, but it's my goto for any bulk transcoding.

[3s-gtech]

In PS:

 

# Acquire a list of DOCX files in a folder

$Files=GET-CHILDITEM "\\server\share\foldersource\*.DOCX" -Recurse
$Word=NEW-OBJECT –COMOBJECT WORD.APPLICATION

Foreach ($File in $Files) {
   # open a Word document, filename from the directory
   $Doc=$Word.Documents.Open($File.fullname)

   # Swap out DOCX with PDF in the Filename
   $Name=($Doc.Fullname).replace("docx","pdf")

   # Save this File as a PDF in Word 2010/2013/2016/2019/2022
   $Doc.saveas([ref] $Name, [ref] 17)

   $Doc.close()
}

[Sonic007]

Thanks all. MultiDoc convertor sorted me out.