Category: Technology

Convert documents over bridges with Office and SharePoint

Various possibilities of conversion with webPDF With webPDF it is possible to convert countless formats. Among other things, you can convert HTML and websites into PDF documents very comfortably. In addition, there is the function of Important notes In our detailed Please also note the license conditions: BEFORE using Microsoft Office with webPDF and the…




How-to: Using the OCR webservice of webPDF 7

In this example the use of the OCR webservice of webPDF is presented. The OCR functions in webPDF are based on tesseract. By default the languages German, English, French, Spanish and Italian are supported. Languages can be added in the tesseract folder (see the webPDF manual for details). Currently languages with a “Multibyte Character Set”…




How to use the webservices of webPDF 7 with options

This example shows how to pass options to the webservices of webPDF. In addition to the well-known “Converter” webservice, a second webPDF webservice called “Toolbox” is used in this example.  This example is based on our text “How to use the web services of webPDF 7“. If you don’t know this yet, it is recommended…




Furnishing technical support information for webPDF

Technical support often involves cases where additional information is needed to either better understand certain situations or master the problem being reported. The goal here is to resolve the support issue with the least amount of effort (in terms of time and tasks) on the part of the customer. Starting with Version 7, webPDF has…


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How can I use the webservices of webPDF 7?

(This tutorial is created for webPDF 7 and following versions. The use of the webservice interfaces has changed fundamentally with this version. For webPDF 6 you can find this tutorial here.) Webservices of webPDF 7 This example shows how to use the webservices of webPDF. The webservice “Converter” is used to convert a selected file…




How to use webPDF with Ruby via REST

This example shows how to use the webservices of webPDF with the scripting language Ruby via the REST interface. To follow this simple example on your PC you need a locally installed require ‘rest-client’ require ‘json’ With this information you can include the required gems in your script. json’ is used to parse and generate…




Webservices-interfaces: SOAP and RESTful

In this technical contribution we would like to compare the webservice-interfaces SOAP and REST. webPDF provides its PDF-functions as SOAP as well as SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) REST (Representational State Transfer) network protocol REST is considered a software architecture style / construction method for the Web Field of application: SAP, use in Enterprise environment…




Unicode 9.0 release planned for mid-2016

After last year’s update, another update is planned for this summer. We take this as an opportunity to take a close look at the unicode standard. The so-called Unicode-consortium as a non-profit association is responsible for ensuring that the unicode standard is continually further developed and expanded. What is unicode? Since computers only work with…




Tutorial: How to use webPDF’s webservices

This tutorial uses a simple example to show how you can use the webservices of webPDF. In it you will be working with the “Converter” webservice to convert a selected file to a PDF document. The Java programming language is used to access the webservice. You will need to have webPDF installed locally, a JDK…




webPDF 6 available as virtual machine (VM)

webPDF 6.0, our latest version, offers a number of new features. Here is a look at all of the most-important innovations. webPDF is, of course, still available as a virtual machine: For VMware vSphere hypervisor or Oracle VirtualBox In open virtualization format (OVF) Based on Debian 7.9 (64 bit) For the rapid set-up and testing…