Command Line Interface#

$ pdf2docx --help

NAME
    pdf2docx - Command line interface for pdf2docx.

SYNOPSIS
    pdf2docx COMMAND | -

DESCRIPTION
    Command line interface for pdf2docx.

COMMANDS
    COMMAND is one of the following:

    convert
      Convert pdf file to docx file.

    debug
      Convert one PDF page and plot layout information for debugging.

    table
      Extract table content from pdf pages.

By range of pages#

Specify pages range by --start (from the first page if omitted) and --end (to the last page if omitted).

Note

The page index is zero-based by default, but can turn it off by --zero_based_index=False, i.e. the first page index starts from 1.

Convert all pages:

$ pdf2docx convert test.pdf test.docx

Convert pages from the second to the end:

$ pdf2docx convert test.pdf test.docx --start=1

Convert pages from the first to the third (index=2):

$ pdf2docx convert test.pdf test.docx --end=3

Convert second and third pages:

$ pdf2docx convert test.pdf test.docx --start=1 --end=3

Convert the first and second pages with zero-based index turn off:

$ pdf2docx convert test.pdf test.docx --start=1 --end=3 --zero_based_index=False

By page numbers#

Convert the first, third and 5th pages:

$ pdf2docx convert test.pdf test.docx --pages=0,2,4

Multi-Processing#

Turn on multi-processing with default count of CPU:

$ pdf2docx convert test.pdf test.docx --multi_processing=True

Specify the count of CPUs:

$ pdf2docx convert test.pdf test.docx --multi_processing=True --cpu_count=4

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