Example of using curl and the DocumentAlchemy API to convert a Word *.doc file to a post-Office 2007 *.docx file. (See <https://documentalchemy.com/> for more information.)

doc2docx-example.sh

# Example of using curl and the DocumentAlchemy API to convert a 
# Word *.doc file to a post-Office 2007 *.docx file.  
# (See <https://documentalchemy.com/> for more information.)

# Assuming:
#
# - `403l1zh3dkbakyb9` is the value of your Document Alchemy API key,
# - `MY_DOCUMENT.doc` is the file you want to convert
# - `MY_DOCUMENT.docx` is the file you want to save the converted document to
#
# the following curl command will convert a (pre-Office 2007) *.doc Word document
# into a (post-Office 2007) *.docx Word document.

curl -H "Authorization: da.key=403l1zh3dkbakyb9" \
     -X POST --form "document=@MY_DOCUMENT.doc" \
     https://documentalchemy.com/api/v1/document/-/rendition/docx \
     -o "MY_DOCUMENT.docx"

# The same general format will work for Excel and PowerPoint files, just
# change all occurrences of `.doc` with `.xsl` or `.ppt` and all occurrences
# of `.docx` with `.xlsx` or `.pptx`.  (Especially at the end of the URL 
# in line 16).
#
# In fact, the same general format will also allow you to convert your
# Word document to PDF, Markdown, an image, etc.  Just change the 
# `docx` value in line 16 to your target format (`pdf` `md`, `png`, etc.)
# See <https://documentalchemy.com/api-doc#!/DocumentAlchemy> for detailed
# information on the underlying REST API methods.