In this tutorial, we will show you how to extract DOC to protected PDF in PHP using PDF.co Web API. The image below shows the source file and the protected PDF output.
Step 1 – Source Code
To begin, let’s copy the HTML and the PHP source code here. Save it in a folder inside the /www or /htdocs directory depending on whether you are using XAMPP or WampServer.
Step 2 – Start Apache
Next, let’s start the Apache server so we can run the program on our local machine.
Step 3 – Run Program
Now, let’s run our program. Type in localhost/folder_name/sample.html in your browser. Then, enter your PDF.co API Key and the DOC file to be converted. You can get your API Key in the dashboard here.
NOTE: You can get a copy of our sample files here.
Step 4 – Protected PDF Output
PDF.co will return a temporary URL to access the protected PDF output. Kindly open the URL to see the result.
Step 5 – DOC to Protected PDF Demo
Here’s the DOC to Protected PDF in action.
In this tutorial, you learned how to extract DOC to protected PDF in PHP using PDF.co Web API. You also learned how easy it is to set up the code samples to get your program running right away.
