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Posted by ascendware · 06-05-2020 - 08:11

Hi,

I'm using this script (https://www.phpdocx.com/documentation/cookbook/convert-pdf-to-docx) to convert a PDF to a DOCX file format. However, it is throwing a "Class 'VARIANT' not found" error. Can you help me with this error?

Also, can the CreateDocxFromTemplate class accept a PDF file as a source template?

Thank you very much.

Posted by admin · 06-05-2020 - 09:02

Hello,

PDF to DOCX is available only using the conversion plugin based on msword. This conversion plugin requires a Windows server (https://www.phpdocx.com/documentation/conversion-plugin/information), PHP COM, and MS Word. The Variant class is included in PHP COM: https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.variant.php. To use this conversion plugin method please check that all requirements are installed.

CreateDocxFromTemplate is only compatible with DOCX documents.

Regards.