Document conversion is the act of converting one document's format to another, which allows the document to be read in many more applications. Documents can be converted into other source document formats, consumer formats or structured data.
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Watson Document Conversion service timeout on pdf redbook files
When trying the Watson Document Conversion service on the following redbook: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/ga195486.pdf, I get timeout error. I verified the size is less than 50 MB. Any guidance on how to handle such files?
Thank you.
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Getting cryptic errors from Bluemix Document Conversion service
I am trying to convert this document: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp5213.pdf to JSON answer units, but it (and many similar others) just won't process through the service. If I try to process it through the demo page at…
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Issue with PPT conversion using python-Django
I was just trying to convert a PPT using the following URL http://code.google.com/p/qifei/wiki/PDFConverter python code
I could see the same thing happening with the command line option too
python documentconverter.py…
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Getting strange character translations using unoconv to convert from docx/doc to pdf
I am using unoconv (https://github.com/dagwieers/unoconv) to convert DOCX and DOC file to PDF, but will often get strange results on certain characters when they are rendered in the PDF.
One particular problem is numbers translating oddly for…
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Inappropriate ioctl for device at when calling unoconv from perl script
I'm triggering a perl script from an postfix email server every time when an email is received for a specified domain. The perl script basically extracts all attachments and then calls unoconv to convert the attachments to PDF format.
I'm currently…
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how to make a service that converts documents to presentations with node.js
I want to make a node.js server that converts documents into ppt presentations. I think I will use Open Office for this job but I am not sure how to start and if someone can help into pointing me towards a good direction and maybe some tutorials on…
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How to convert docx to pdf using python3?
I want to display a preview of files uploaded by a users.
For this reason, I have to convert docx-files to pdf using python 3.7.
When looking for a library to do the job I found the following:
pdfminer, but it only supports python 2.7
comtypes, but…
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How do I send a PDF to Watson's Document Conversion service without writing it to disk first?
I am trying to convert this document (http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/ga195486.pdf) to answer units in Watson's Document Conversion service using the watson-developer-cloud node.js library.
In the actual program (not this test program), I…
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Bluemix document conversion service - how to convert multiple documents
My goal is a single file of documents in JSON format, that would come from 50-100 MS Word or PDF documents.
Is there a way to supply multiple documents to the "convert_document" command? I've tried using curl to supply multiple .pdf or *.doc files…
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Converting high volume of .pdf's into .html or .doc
I'm looking for either a code snippet or other solution capable of converting a high volume (thousands) of .pdf's into .html or .doc while at the same time:
maintaining hierarchical structure of headings
capturing images in the document, uploading…
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