Java:using apache POI how to convert ms word file to pdf?

Question

By using apache POI how to convert ms word file to pdf?

I an using the following code but its not working giving errors I gues

Answer 1

This save my day, i load docx file from an url and convert it to pdf:

pom.xml

    org.apache.poi
    poi
    3.13


    org.apache.poi
    poi-ooxml
    3.13


    fr.opensagres.xdocreport
    org.apache.poi.xwpf.converter.pdf
    LATEST

main_class

public String wordToPDFPOI(String url) throws Exception {
    InputStream doc = new URL(url).openStream();
    ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

    XWPFDocument document = new XWPFDocument(doc);
    PdfOptions options = PdfOptions.create();
    PdfConverter.getInstance().convert(document, baos, options);
    String base64_encoded = Base64.encodeBytes(baos.toByteArray());

    return base64_encoded;
}