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Download file converted with Box View API

  • May 21, 2025
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I think I'm lacking understanding of the developer doc's nomenclature and am getting myself all confused.

Project: Upload a PDF. Convert it to HTML. Store converted file on client's server. Display converted content in browsers on request.

Here's what I've accomplished: Using Box View API, convert a PDF file and view it in the browser. But the converted file is on Box's server.

What I need to do: Download the PDF-to-HTML converted file to my client's server.

I obtained viewer.js from GitHub which states, in part, "viewer.js supports rendering text-based documents converted by the Box View API." Is the PDF-to-HTML converted file considered a "text-based document"?

Be that as it may, my next step is to get the converted file downloaded. Can you point me to the correct documentation, please?

Thank you!

Will

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    Hi Will!

     

     

    I think that this bit of the documentation should do the trick for you:
    https://box-view.readme.io/reference#get-documentsidcontentextension

     

    You can use the above call to download a file either in its original format, or in one of a few other "converted" formats - as specified in the link.

     

    The converted file is considered a text-based document in this sense, and the non_svg version of the converted file would be an exception to that statement. This is described a little bit further in the documentation here: https://box-view.readme.io/reference#post-documents

     

     

    Hopefully that does the trick for you!

    Thanks!

    -Tony

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    Thank you, Tony. That was exactly what I needed.

     

    Will

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    Hi,
    In New Box View , how can we download a converted html files, like previous version of Box View?.
    Download API downloads the file in the original format.

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    Hey Sourabh,

     

    Looks like this is what you are looking for: https://docs.box.com/reference#download-a-file!

     

    Please let us know if you run into any issues. 

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    Hi

      

       Does the new Download file API allow us to download the file with PDF format that converted after uploaded to Box View? The old Box View API supports that (https://view.box.com/reference#get-documentsidcontentextension).

      If not, how do I get converted PDF format of a file?

     

    Thanks,

     

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    Hey, anybody here 😞

    I've developed application using old box-view api allow user upload documents with some formats, then download the converted document in PDF format. And I'm going to migrating to new box-view api, but can't found the way to download converted document in PDF format. 

    Plz help me.

     

    Thanks,

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