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OX Document Converter explained
- 1. Malte Timmermann –Head of Development OX Documents January 2015 OX Document Converter Explained From a technical point of view
- 2. OX Document Converter Features 2OX Document Converter Explained • Document Conversion ❯ Convert different types of documents to OOXML or ODF ❯ Convert different types of documents to PDF ❯ Converter PDF to PNG ❯ Convert PDF to SVG • State ❯ Stateless when converting full documents ❯ Stateful when converting page by page • Queueing and Process Management ❯ Processing conversion jobs in the order they arrive ❯ Queues with different priorities – documents to be viewed have much higher priority than thumbnail generation ❯ Processes Management – conversion process lifetime und reuse count, detect crashed or hanging processes, … • Cache Server ❯ Avoid unnecessary conversions ❯ Self-organizing Cache Cluster • Some more details are explained in the OX Techblog article.
- 3. Architecture Overview 3 OXDocument Converter Explained OX Backend Document Converter Open Office OX Drive InfoStore 3rd Party Cloud StorageOX Drive Backend With user information Without user information, converter typically installed on a different machine. OX Backend fetches the document from Drive and transfers it to the converter. Different types of documents to OOXML/ODF/PDF Poppler+Cairo PDF to SVG/PNG Sharepoint (*) MS Binary and OOXML to PDF MS Binary to OOXML *) Sharepoint WCF service available on request Cache
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