Service Level Description¶
The mandate of the document Conversion Service is to provide automatic conversion of documents, usually office documents, towards a different format usually PDF or PDF/A. This is accomplished nowadays using a RESTful API. Nature of the communication is asynchronous.
The service aims at operating 24/7 but provides support coverage only during working hours.
Live statistics at ES cluster (only for admins)
Support¶
You can open a ticket using SNOW to Electronic doc conversion functional element.
Possible conversions nowadays¶
| Converter | Application | Output format |
|---|---|---|
| neevia | Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visio*, Microsoft Project*, Microsoft IE, AutoCAD, OpenOffice | PostScript, PDF, PDF/A |
| toimg | PDF file | tif & gather in a zip file: bmp,jpg,png |
| thumb | PDF file | first page converted to a png file |
| hpgl | a PLT file (Autocad type of file) | PDF file |
| tesocr | a tif or image file | PDF file, OCR version of the image provided |
| modiocr | a pdf or image file | PDF file, OCR version of the image provided |
Warning
Microsoft Visio and Project are not any more supported due to Malt policies.
Info
The service is mainly a office conversion service. Though an effort has been done to support other conversions and configurations e.g. tesocr, modiocr, thumb, hpgl and toimg. Those they do require further testing with real use cases.