PDFBox is pretty sweet. You might recall my Osmosis talk at Apachecon Denver on PDF to PPTX.
At work my team has also created PDF to HTML5 (SVG) conversion with recomposition of text and shapes. This is why I want a good API and some way to plug DocFormat. This is definitely a part of my interest in Corinthia. Regards, Dave On Feb 3, 2015, at 9:12 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > Adding to the remark by Louis. The PDF Association also has some strong > conformance testing and that, combined with a way to examine and test PDFs > handled/produced by Corinthia using ODFBox, even if outside of Corinthia > proper, is a valuable (side)-opportunity. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Louis Suárez-Potts [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 08:29 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Apache™ PDFBox™ named an Open Source Partner Organization of the > PDF Association : The Apache Software Foundation Blog > > [ ... ]. I was thinking more in terms that PDFBox grants those with JVMs to > manipulate PDFs ad hoc. As a lot of enterprise docs. are PDFs, the utility of > the service seems plain. (That OpenOffice can do this, too, to a limited > degree, as can other open source applications is known; that they are not > used this way and instead the maximally expensive options are used just goes > to show you that nature doesn’t just abhor a vacuum, it sucks.) > > But to return to the point. If one aspect of Corinthia is to enable the > manipulation of documents, then it bears watching how other similar, if by no > means congruent or identical, services fare in the market. More expanded: to > investigate the possibility of cooperation if not collaboration; of mutual > interest. > > louis >
