Use this information to install the Document Transformation Engine SDK.

Download the Document Transformation Engine SDK from Hyland Community.This is an executable jar file with all dependencies that works as a command line client. The executable class is com.westernacher.transformationserver.demo.DemoClient.

To invoke the Document Transformation Engine SDK jar file, use the following syntax:

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java -jar alfresco-document-transformation-engine-sdk-2.3.0-plain.jar -in input.doc -out output.pdf -url http://trafo-url:8080/transformation-server

An API usage example is available at com.westernacher.transformationserver.demo.ApiUsageExample. You can copy, modify, and use this code in your own product.

A list of the most important file formats is available at mimetypes.properties. These file formats have their mime type auto-detected by the file extension. Note that this is not the full list of supported formats.

The most important source and target formats are:

Source formats:

• Most image formats
• Nearly all Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint formats
• .eml and .msg Emails

Target formats:

• PDF and PDF/A
• SWF
• Most image formats

Functions that do not work with the SDK:

• OCR
• Resizing an image, which is necessary to produce thumbnails
• PDF/A as a target format