Just using imagemagick and ffmepg is easy, but it is not perfect in real life. It will fail occasionally with various PDF versions or different codecs, will leak memory or consume resources. To make this work requires a lot of effort and using proprietary applications so it's not really viably to make it free.
On 17 September 2012 22:30, Jon Stevens <latch...@gmail.com> wrote: > I thought about making something that is worth charging for, but I think > the market is too small. Thus, I think that this should be free. It should > just be some simple webservice that people can deploy to heroku on a free > tier app. It shouldn't be that hard to develop and if we all work together > on it, we can make something nice. =) > > jon > > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Andrius A <andriu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I am thinking to create a webservice for this as I have much of >> experience converting various file formats. >> How much would you be willing to pay per file conversion? per batch? >> >> Regards, >> Andrius >> >> On 17 September 2012 21:52, Jon Stevens <latch...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I'll come up with something in October as I need this functionality. >>> Basically, you just need a simple nodejs (or whatever) wrapper around >>> imagemagick/ghostscript. I'll probably make it super simple to deploy a >>> service to heroku. >>> >>> jon >>> >>> >>> On Friday, August 31, 2012 2:49:57 PM UTC-7, Bommelmutze wrote: >>>> >>>> Does Google new provide any similar Library or API? >>>> Actually it seems to be very hard to convert PDFs without the >>>> Conversion API to Images. Do you have any alternative way to do that? >>>> >>>> Am Dienstag, 21. August 2012 20:16:48 UTC+2 schrieb Christina Ilvento: >>>>> >>>>> In November, 2012, we will be decommissioning the Experimental Conversion >>>>> API <https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/conversion/>. >>>>> In the 1.7.1 release, the API will be marked as “decommissioned” in our >>>>> documentation, and starting the first release after November 1, the >>>>> Conversion API will no longer be supported in the App Engine SDK or >>>>> runtimes. >>>>> >>>>> One of the great things about App Engine is our ability to quickly >>>>> release and iterate on new Experimental features. But sometimes a feature >>>>> doesn’t get the developer adoption and momentum needed to justify >>>>> providing >>>>> it as a fully supported feature with a continued maintenance commitment. >>>>> The Conversion API is one of those features. >>>>> >>>>> We are committed to providing a well-maintained, fully-supported >>>>> platform and we will continue to focus on providing high value features >>>>> for >>>>> our developers. If you have any concerns or questions, please don’t >>>>> hesitate to contact us at *google-app-engine-conversion- >>>>> api-decommission-questions**@google.com*. >>>>> >>>>> Thank you for your continued support of App Engine. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Christina Ilvento, Product Manager for the App Engine Conversion API >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Google App Engine" group. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/rjfSKRiAYXMJ. >>> >>> To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google App Engine" group. >> To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
