Hi,
We are evaluating your product for integration with one of our malware products. Originally we built a converter in-house, but we are becoming increasingly overwhelmed by the amount of file conversions that we must support. Therefor, we have decided to try a third party solution and VeryDoc looks very promising.
We specifically need to support:
doc/docx -> txt, pdf, bmp, jpg, (html)
xls/xlsx -> csv, pdf, bmp, jpg, (html)
ppt/pptx -> pdf, bmp, jpg, (html)
pdf -> txt, bmp, jpg, (html)
html -> txt, pdf, bmp, jpg
any image -> pdf, bmp, jpg
(converting to html is not mandatory but a nice to have..)
Furthermore, we need to be sure of several items or need clarification (please respond inline):
1)Is there a single sdk which we can call that will do all of the above conversions? If not a single, than how many different sdk?
2)Is the sdk threadsafe?
3)When converting from doc, xls, ppt, I am assuming VeryDoc has built their own binary parsing algorithm which is based off the published information on MSDN. The only developers which I know that have successfully performed this are the fellows at Open Office. If VeryDOC has not taken this path, then please disclose in general terms how you tackled this issue. The method by which you extract data has direct effects on our Program since we deal with malware.
4)When converting from docx, xlsx, pptx, I am again assuming VeryDoc uses OpenXML SDK 2.5. Do you have any known limitations when converting? For example, no foreign characters. Cannot handle graphs in xslx, etc.
5)If any of the above conversions use a "intermediate" conversion, we will need to know. Again, since we deal with malware, these could pose as major risks. For example, when we convert to docx -> jpg. We first convert docx to html, and from html we convert to jpg.
6)Are there any size limitations on the conversions?
7)All conversions complete within 10seconds. (From our own conversions, we have noted that conversion to bmp for large files (50mb+) can take a bit of time.)
8)What is your relationship with VeryPDF? I understand you are partners, however, when I click on your "License Agreement", I am sent to VeryPDF's. We just need one SDK, whether it comes from VeryDOC or VeryPDF, this does not concern us.
Best regards,
Customer
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>>We specifically need to support:
>>doc/docx -> txt, pdf, bmp, jpg, (html)
>>xls/xlsx -> csv, pdf, bmp, jpg, (html)
>>ppt/pptx -> pdf, bmp, jpg, (html)
>>pdf -> txt, bmp, jpg, (html)
>>html -> txt, pdf, bmp, jpg
>>any image -> pdf, bmp, jpg
>>(converting to html is not mandatory but a nice to have..)
Yes, our "DOC to Any Converter Command Line" product has above functions, you may download the trial version of "DOC to Any Converter Command Line" from our website to try,
https://www.verydoc.com/doc-to-any.html
>>1)Is there a single sdk which we can call that will do all of the above conversions? If not a single, than how many different sdk?
Yes, we have "DOC to Any Converter SDK/COM" product on following web page,
https://www.verydoc.com/doc-to-any.html
"DOC to Any Converter SDK/COM" is a single SDK product to do the above conversion.
>>2)Is the sdk threadsafe?
Yes, "DOC to Any Converter SDK/COM" is threadsafe.
>>3)When converting from doc, xls, ppt, I am assuming VeryDoc has built their own binary parsing algorithm which is based off the published information on MSDN. The only developers which I know that have successfully performed this are the fellows at Open Office. If VeryDOC has not taken this path, then please disclose in general terms how you tackled this issue. The method by which you extract data has direct effects on our Program since we deal with malware.
Thanks for your message, yes, we can parse DOC format by ourself (without depend on MS Office and OpenOffice), but we can't parse the XLS and PPT formats without MS Office and OpenOffice installed.
Our "DOC to Any Converter SDK/COM" and "DOC to Any Converter Command Line" products are not require MS Office installed to convert Office documents to PDF files and Image files.
"DOC to Any Converter SDK/COM" and "DOC to Any Converter Command Line" products will work by following solutions:
1. If your system has MS Office 2007 + PDF&XPS addon installed, doc2any will use PDF&XPS addon to save MS Office documents to PDF and XPS files,
2. If your system has MS Office installed but without PDF&XPS addon, doc2any will use MS Office to print documents to PDF and XPS files,
3. If your system hasn't MS Office installed, but has OpenOffice installed, doc2any will use OpenOffice to convert documents,
4. If your system hasn't both MS Office and OpenOffice installed, doc2any will use ourself's DOC/RTF render to convert DOC and RTF formats to other formats, but doc2any will not support PPT and XLS formats at this time.
In general, you can do following conversions if your system hasn't MS Office and OpenOffice installed,
1. RTF to HTML without MS Word or OpenOffice,
2. RTF to DOC without MS Word or OpenOffice,
3. RTF to PDF without MS Word or OpenOffice,
4. DOC to HTML without MS Word or OpenOffice,
5. DOC to RTF without MS Word or OpenOffice,
6. DOC to PDF without MS Word or OpenOffice,
If you need convert DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS, XLSX document formats to PDF or XPS format, you need install MS Office or OpenOffice.
>>4)When converting from docx, xlsx, pptx, I am again assuming VeryDoc uses OpenXML SDK 2.5. Do you have any known limitations when converting? For example, no foreign characters. Cannot handle graphs in xslx, etc.
Thanks for your message, we are not using OpenXML SDK to convert DOCX, XLSX, PPTX formats, we are using OpenOffice or MS Office to convert DOCX, XLSX, PPTX formats.
>>5)If any of the above conversions use a "intermediate" conversion, we will need to know. Again, since we deal with malware, these could pose as major risks. For example, when we convert to docx -> jpg. We first convert docx to html, and from html we convert to jpg.
Thanks for your message, it is not a good solution to convert DOCX => HTML => JPEG, because HTML may lost the layout or format in original DOCX format. So, our doc2any does convert DOCX to JPEG format directly, we don't use HTML or other formats as the "intermediate".
>>6)Are there any size limitations on the conversions?
Our doc2any is no maximum number of file size limited. It is also no limitation on maximum number of document pages which can be processed at one time.
>>7)All conversions complete within 10seconds. (From our own conversions, we have noted that conversion to bmp for large files (50mb+) can take a bit of time.)
The conversion time is depend on the complexity of input document, if input document contains complexity graphics, the conversion is need more time.
>>8)What is your relationship with VeryPDF? I understand you are partners, however, when I click on your "License Agreement", I am sent to VeryPDF's. We just need one SDK, whether it comes from VeryDOC or VeryPDF, this does not concern us.
VeryDOC is another website which belong to VeryPDF, VeryPDF is focus on PDF products, VeryDOC is focus on DOC, PPT, XLS, RTF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, Postscript, XPS, XML, etc. document formats, it is not limited to PDF format. They are belong to same company, just for different type of software.
VeryDOC