GroupDocs.Conversion-CLI 24.5.0-alpha-20240703092206

CLI for GroupDocs.Conversion for .NET

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CLI - Command Line Interface for GroupDocs.Conversion for .NET document conversion and automation API.

GroupDocs.Conversion is a class-library that enables you to build seamless document conversion applications for mobile, web, and desktop platforms using C#, F#, or VB.NET. It supports more than 10 000 combinations for converting popular file formats in HTML, PNG, JPEG, and PDF. Our library is self-sufficient and doesn't depend on any third-party software, such as Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, or other office suites.

Features

• Thousands of different file conversion pairs: office documents, presentations, spreadsheets, images and much more.
• Ability to convert whole document or specific pages range.
• Place watermarks at document pages during conversion.
• Huge amount of additional options to customize the appearance of the converted document.
• Load document from Amazon S3, Azure Blob, FTP, or from local disk.
• Load document via stream or from a specific URL.
• Load password-protected documents.
• Enable listening of conversion process stages.

See the Features overview documentation topic for more details.

Supported platforms

• Windows: Microsoft Windows XP and later, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and later.
• Linux: Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, CentOS and others.
• Mac OS X Catalina (10.15) and later.

Supported formats

• Documents: PDF, XPS, TEX
• Word: DOC, DOCX, DOCM, DOT, DOTX, DOTM, RTF, TXT
• Powepoint: PPT, PPTX, PPS, PPSX, ODP, OTP
• Excel: XLS, XLSX, XLSM, XLSB, XLTM, XLTX, XLT, XLAM
• Visio: VSDX, VSDM, VSSX, VSTX, VSTM, VSSM, VSX, VTX, VDX
• OpenDocument: ODT, OTT, ODS
• Images: BMP, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, SVG, PS
• Diagram: VSDX, DRAW, LUCIDCHART
• CAD & GIS: DWG, DXF, DWF, IFC, SHP, KML, GEOJSON
• Audio: MP3, WAV, FLAC, AAC, OGG
• Video: MP4, AVI, MKV, MOV, WMV
• 3D & Vector: SVG, AI, EPS, CDR, STL, OBJ, FBX, DAE, GLB
• eBook: EPUB, MOBI, AZW, FB2
• Web: HTML, MHTML, MHT
• Archives: ZIP, TAR, RAR, 7Z, BZ2, GZ
• Email & Outlook: PST, OST, MSG, EML
• Finance: QFX, OFX
• OneNote: ONE

See the Supported file formats documentation topic for a complete list of supported formats.

Getting Started

GroupDocs.Conversion CLI is a dotnet tool. To start using the CLI you'll need .NET runtime and GroupDocs.Conversion CLI:

1. Install .NET Core runtime following by the instructions
2. Install dotnet tool by running dotnet tool install --global GroupDocs.Conversion-CLI
3. You can run GroupDocs.Conversion.CLI by using command groupdocs-conversion

GroupDocs.Conversion CLI is also distributed as a self-contained executable.

Example usage

Convert DOCX to PDF

groupdocs-conversion convert --source source.docx --output-file ./converted.pdf

Convert DOCX to PNG

groupdocs-conversion convert --source source.docx --output-directory ./converted --target-format png

Retrieve a document info

groupdocs-conversion get-document-info --source source.docx

Commands

• convert converts source document to target format. If target format is not provided, the target format is detected from the target file extension.

• get-document-info gets document information

Parameters

Parameters for "convert" command

• --output-directory [short: -d]: Specifies the output directory

• --output-file [short: -f]: Specifies the output document

• --source [short: -s]: Specifies the source document that will be converted (Required)

• --target-format [short: -t]: Specifies the desired format after conversion

Parameters for "get-document-info" command

• --source [short: -s]: Specifies the source document that will be converted (Required)

Parameters for "convert" and "get-document-info" commands

• --license-path [short: -l]: Specifies the path to the license file

• --timeout: Specifies the command timeout in seconds

• --verbose [short: -v]: Specifies whether to output detailed logs

Setting the license

Without a license the tool will work in trial mode so you can convert only first three pages of a document see Evaluation Limitations and Licensing of GroupDocs.Conversion for more details. A temporary license can be requested at Get a Temporary License.

The license can be set with --license-path parameter:

groupdocs-conversion convert --source source.docx --output-file ./converted.pdf --license-path c:\\licenses\\GroupDocs.Conversion.lic

Also, you can set path to the license file in GROUPDOCS_CONVERSION_LICENSE_PATH environment variable.

Support

Our technical support is available to all users, including those evaluating our product. We offer assistance through our Free Support Forum and Paid Support Helpdesk. Let us know if you have any questions or issues, and we'll do our best to help you.

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