We have updated the GroupDocs Cloud pricing structure to simplify it for new customers. Previously some API calls were “chargeable” while other API calls were not. If an API call created a document or meaningful result, then it was chargeable. If an API call did not create a document or result, then it was not chargeable. However, there were some ‘grey areas’ with certain GroupDocs Cloud products where customers were confused about whether they should be charged for some calls.
To resolve this issue we have updated our pricing to now charge for every API call made, regardless of what the API call does. At the same time, the cost of each API call on the new pricing scheme has been reduced by 1/3.
How does this affect Existing Customers?
Since the effect of this change is different for every customer we have not automatically switched existing customers to the new pricing. Instead as with every pricing change we have “grandfathered” existing customers who will continue to be charged based on the pricing when they signed up.
If you are an existing customer who wishes to switch to the new pricing, you can do this by visiting the “Buy Now” page within your GroupDocs Cloud account.
GroupDocs is glad to share with you that GroupDocs.Storage Cloud API features are now more simplified. Files and folders storage and their manipulation are no more dependent on the separate GroupDocs.Storage Cloud API, however, these features are available as micro-service within every GroupDocs Cloud API. To be very precise, “GroupDocs.Storage Cloud has been discontinued as a separate product”.
What existing users can do?
GroupDocs.Storage Cloud API and following SDKs will only remain available on the public repositories like GitHub, NuGet, etc for the existing customers until December 31, 2020:
GroupDocs.Storage Cloud SDK for .NET
GroupDocs.Storage Cloud SDK for PHP
GroupDocs.Storage Cloud SDK for Ruby
Therefore, we recommend updating your applications to the latest versions of SDKs / endpoints before it is completely removed from every platform.
The below sample shows how you were using GroupDocs.Storage Cloud API to get the list of all the files and folders within any folder:
// How to get list of files and folders using GroupDocs.Storage Cloud API
curl -v "https://api.groupdocs.cloud/v1.0/storage/folder?path=/Output" \
-X GET \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "authorization: Bearer TOKEN"
Above can now be done using any of the GroupDocs Cloud APIs. The below sample shows the cURL commands for GroupDocs.Conversion Cloud API to perform the same as above:
// How to get list of files and folders using GroupDocs.Conversion Cloud API
curl -X GET "https://api.groupdocs.cloud/v2.0/conversion/storage/folder/foldername?storageName=storageName" \
-H "accept: application/json" \
-H "authorization: Bearer TOKEN"
GroupDocs is exiting to share first version of GroupDocs.Parser Cloud. It is an out of box platform independent REST API Solution to Parse and Extract data from all common business file formats without depending on any third-party tool or plugin. Developers can integrate it with their web, desktop, mobile, or cloud application without any major learning curve because it can be used on any platform or language that supports REST.
What is GroupDocs.Parser Cloud?
Suppose you are developing a document
management system and need a feature for text searching or text analyzing,
wouldn’t it be great if your system can read or analyze a wide range of document
types without installing related document reader?
GroupDocs.Parser Cloud accomplishes the above mentioned purpose. It is a document data extraction REST API that supports over 50 document types. One of the most valuable features of GroupDocs.Parser Cloud is parsing documents with predefined templates. It is easy to define a template and extract data from business documents, for example invoices, receipts, quotation, letter, etc. It is not limited to text extraction but you can also extract images from the supported document types. The API can be used not only with regular documents but also with containers like ZIP archives, OST/PST mail data files and PDF portfolios. Spare some time and visit release notes of a first public release for a complete list of its features.
How It Works?
You can use GroupDocs.Parser Cloud features in your application in two ways. Either use it via some REST Client or use our SDK directly in your favorite programming language. You can find a complete list of SDKs from GroupDocs.Parser Github repository.
Here I’ll demonstrate
the functionality of GroupDocs.Parser Cloud by parsing a word document with a
predefined template. I’m using a REST client; cURL a command line tool.
First thing first,
before you proceed, please sign up with groupdocs.cloud and get App SID and App Key to
authenticate your rest API calls.
Create Template
As
shared above, GroupDocs.Parser Cloud allows users to parse document with predefined templates to extract data from
the document. We’ll create a template for following Word document and save to
the default storage.
Here
we go, follow these steps to create a simple template:
cURL
example:
·
Get Access Token
·
Create Template
Parse Document
Now we’ll parse the
Word document using predefined template from the storage, generated above. The
template can be provided as an object or storage path, please check parse by template document for more details.
cURL example:
What’s Next?
Start a free trial of GroupDocs.Parser Cloud today – all you need is to sign up with the GroupDocs Cloud service. Once you have signed up, you are ready to try the powerful file processing features offered by GroupDocs.Parser Cloud using the following resources.
We’re pleased to share insight of
upcoming GroupDocs.Parser Cloud API, a new addition to groupdocs.cloud product list. GroupDocs.Parser
Cloud is a document parsing solution. As a developer, you’ll be able to add
document parsing feature in your applications on any platform without depending
on any third-party plugin or tool. The main feature of this REST API will be to
parse documents on user-defined templates to extract data from your invoices,
quotation or other kinds of business documents.
Some of the supported features in upcoming
API are as following. The REST API will not be limited to the following
features, but we will be keep adding new useful features.
Features
Parse Document by
Template
Extract Text
Extract only text
Extract formatted
text using extraction mode option; Plain Text, HTML and Markdown
Extract text from
specific pages by setting the page range
Extract Images
Document information
extraction
Template Management
Supported formats
In the first release of GroupDocs.Parser
Cloud API, we will be supporting the following file formats:
The GroupDocs.Parser Cloud REST API is
secured and requires authentication.
You will need AppSID
and AppKey for authentication, which can be created at the dashboard.
API Explorer
We will provide a Web-based API Reference Explorer
for GroupDocs.Parser Cloud. So you will be able to try the REST APIs right away
in your browser. And also you can get information about all the resources in
the API.
SDKs
GroupDocs.Parser Cloud will come with
SDKs for all popular programing languages hosted on our GitHub
repository along with working examples, that will allow you to integrate
it into existing systems. The SDKs will be wrapped around REST API. The SDK
will take care of low-level details of making requests and handling responses,
that will let you focus on writing code specific to your particular project.
Our first version
We are currently finalizing the documentation and examples for GroupDocs.Parser Cloud. We have planned to release the first version of new product soon with features shared above. If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to write us on groupdocs.cloud Forum.
To ensure GroupDocs REST APIs position as leader of Document Manipulation APIs, we are working hard to introduce new features and APIs for your daily use cases. As we announced earlier, we’re in the process to add a new REST API in GroupDocs REST APIs collection. We’re happy to release first version of GroupDocs.Merger Cloud. It is a universal REST API solution to merge and split a wide range of document formats on any platform, without installing any plugin or software.
What is GroupDocs.Merger Cloud?
While working with documents, sometimes it is a common requirement to merge documents into a single file. You can copy and paste the content directly when the info quantity is not large. But what if it is not that case? You need some automated solution that can merge the documents reliably and accurately. GroupDocs.Merger Cloud is a REST API that not only allows you to join multiple documents, but also manipulate single document structure across a wide range of supported document types. As a developer, you can use it in your application for document merging solution. It supports all common file formats. The supported file types include PDF, Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, plain and formatted text, and a long list of supported document formats.
Here is a complete list of supported
features of first version of GroupDocs.Merger Cloud:
The
GroupDocs.Merger Cloud REST API is secured and requires authentication using an
app access key ID (App SID) and app secret (App Key) with JSON
web token authentication. Sign
up with groupdocs.cloud to get your App
SID and App Key.
API Explorer
GroupDocs
for Cloud REST APIs comes with a web based API Explorer as well.
It is the easiest way to try out GroupDocs.Merger Cloud API right away in your
browser. It is a collection of Swagger documentation for the GroupDocs.Merger
Cloud API. So simply, first you need to sign
up with groupdocs.cloud, get APP key and SID and start testing GroupDocs.Merger
Cloud REST API in your favorite browser interactively.
SDKs
GroupDocs.Merger
Cloud REST API comes with SDKs for different platforms to use this REST API in
your specific project effortlessly. An SDK takes care of a lot of low-level
details of making requests and handling responses and lets you focus on writing
code specific to your particular project. Please check out our GitHub
repository for a complete list of GroupDocs.Merger
Cloud SDKs along with working examples, to get you started in no time.
How It Work?
Let me show, how easily
you can use features of GroupDocs.Merger Cloud in your application with minimal
learning curve. First thing first, sign
up with groupdocs.cloud and get App SID and App Key to authenticate your
rest API calls, before you proceed.
Merge Documents
We can use REST API
method to merge documents of same format either with a REST Client in our code
or use GroupDocs.Merger Cloud SDK of our favorite programming language. Here we
will demonstrate both ways to merge the documents:
Start a free trial today – all you need
is to sign up with the GroupDocs Cloud service. Once you have signed up, you
are ready to try the powerful file processing features offered by GroupDocs.Merger
Cloud using following resources.
As a Python developer, you can have a requirement from your users to provide PDF to Word document conversion feature in your application. Because it is very difficult to edit PDF documents without Adobe Acrobat. And users have requirement to edit text, table, images and other contents in the PDF document. A solution for the requirement is to convert PDF document to editable Word document. But, you might be surprised to know that it’s not that simple. Luckily, there is Python module; GroupDocs.Conversion Cloud SDK for Python that make it easy for you to convert PDF to editable Word document with a few lines of code.
GroupDocs.Conversion Cloud is a platform independent document and image conversion solution without depending on any tool or software. It can quickly and reliably convert images and documents of any supported file format. It offers the SDKs for all popular programming languages with source code and working examples. That enables the developers to use GroupDocs.Conversion Cloud directly in their applications without worrying about underlying REST API calls. In this article, I’m using Python SDK for PDF to Word conversion.
How to Convert PDF
to Editable DOCX
Setup
For
this tutorial, I’ll be using Python 3.7.4, you can use any version you like Python
2.7, 3.4 or above.
Install groupdocs-conversion-cloud
package from pypi with the following
command.
>pip
install groupdocs-conversion-cloud
Store your source PDF document in the
folder where you’re saving your script file.
Code
Use your favorite editor
and type:
Import the
GroupDocs.Conversion Cloud Python package
Initialize the API
Upload source PDF document
to GroupDocs default storage
Convert the PDF document
to editable DOCX
And that’s it. PDF
document is converted to DOCX and API response includes the URL of the
resultant document.
Got a question or a suggestion? Please feel free to drop us a comment below or post a question in the support forum. It helps us to continually improve and refine our API.
Want to explore more
about GroupDocs.Conversion Cloud, go through the following useful resources of
GroupDocs.Conversion Cloud.
Are you working on a document management application and looking for an API to merge documents in your application? Your search for the option should be over. GroupDocs is going to release a new Cloud API, GroupDocs.Merger Cloud, it will empower the developers to merge multiple documents of the same format with high accuracy and fidelity on any platform and without depending upon any third-party plugin or application. Some of the notable features that new API will offer are joining documents, splitting documents, moving document pages, rotating document pages, extracting document pages and much more.
We will share a glimpse of upcoming GroupDocs.Merger
Cloud API below. It will not be limited to the following features, but we will
keep adding new useful features and support of new file formats in the API.
Features
Document
operations
Join Documents
Split Document
Document Preview
Document
pages operations
Move Page
Remove Pages
Rotate Pages
Swap Page
Extract Pages
Change Pages Orientation
Document
security operations
Document information extraction
Supported formats
GroupDocs.Merger Cloud REST API supports
following file formats:
We are currently in the process of preparing Examples and Documentation for this new product. We have planned to release the first version of the Aspsoe.Merger Cloud REST API soon with features shared above. If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to write on GroupDocs.Cloud Forum.
Please stay tuned to this blog for further updates.
Are you working on a document viewer application in Java? Do you want to have a single solution for viewing all common file formats? There is good news for you, you can render MS Office, PDF and many other file formats to HTML5 with GroupDocs.Viewer Cloud SDK for Java. So that documents of different types can be easily displayed inside your application without any additional software installed (like MS Office, Apache Open Office, Adobe Acrobat Reader and others).
GroupDocs.Viewer Cloud is a platform independent document rendering and viewing solution. It allows you to display over 80 industry standard document types in your application. The main purpose of GroupDocs.Viewer Cloud is an ability to render documents into HTML, Image or PDF representations fast and with high quality. In this post, I’ll keep focus on HTML5 output.
Now, l’ll show you how easily you can render your input document to HTML5 with few line of code. As stated earlier, I am going to use GroupDocs.Viewer Cloud SDK for Java in this post. However, if you’re using some other programming language, then you can check SDK of your choice from our GitHub repository. It contains the SDKs for all popular programming languages. It enables the developers to use GroupDocs.Viewer Cloud directly in their applications without worrying about underlying REST API calls.
Here we go!
Step 1:
Before we begin with coding, sign up with groupdocs.cloud to get your APP SID and APP Key.
Step 2:
GroupDocs Cloud hosts all its Java SDKs on Maven repository. Create a new Maven project and add following Maven Repository configuration / location in your Maven pom.xml as below to use groupdocs-viewer-cloud.
<repository>
<id>groupdocs-artifact-repository</id>
<name>GroupDocs Artifact Repository</name>
<url>http://repository.groupdocs.cloud/repo</url>
</repository>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.groupdocs</groupId>
<artifactId>groupdocs-viewer-cloud</artifactId>
<version>19.5</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
Step 3:
Copy following sample Java code to your Java class. We’re converting DWF file to HTML5.
Step 4:
Run the code, and that’s
it. The API response includes the URL of the resultant HTML to download for
post processing as per your requirement.
Explore more code samples of GroupDocs.Viewer Cloud SDK for Java from GitHub.
Got a question or a suggestion? Please feel free to drop us a comment below or post a question in the support forum. It helps us to continually improve and refine our API.
PDF (Portable Document
Format) is one of the most important and widely used file format used to
present and exchange documents. As a python developer, there are many scenarios
where you will want to extract text from
a PDF document and export it in a different format using Python for text
analytics. In this post, we will show you how to extract text from a PDF
document accurately using GroupDocs.Conversion
Cloud SDK for Python.
GroupDocs.Conversion Cloud
is a platform independent REST API solution of document and image conversion
without depending on any third-party application. It converts 50+ types of
documents from one format to another. It offers SDKs
for all popular programming languages including Python, so developers can use
the API directly in their applications without worrying about underlying REST
API calls.
Let us start the code:
Install GroupDocs.Conversion
Cloud Package
First thing first,
install groupdocs-conversion-cloud package from pypi with the
following command.
>pip install
groupdocs-conversion-cloud
Python PDF Text
Extraction Example
We will follow these
steps to extract text from a PDF Document:
Create a python module and copy paste following code in it. We have used default options to extract text of the PDF document. You can extract text of specific pages as well using Convert Options of text format.
Run the code in you favorite
IDE, you will get following output and that’s it. Task accomplished!
Feel free to drop us a comment at the support forum sharing your thoughts about GroupDocs.Conversion Cloud API. Or let us know if you have any suggestions or if you need any particular features which you expect our REST API to have.
GroupDocs.Conversion
Cloud is a document and image conversion solution. It empowers the developers
to add document conversion feature in their applications on any platform with
complete control using standard REST API Calls. In this post we will discuss
How to optimize PDF document. You can visit GroupDocs.Convesion Cloud
for a complete list of features.
A PDF document may sometimes contain additional data. Reducing the size of a PDF file will help you optimize the network transfer and storage. This is especially handy for publishing on web pages, sharing on social networks, sending by e-mail, or archiving in storage. Let me show you how easily you can use GroupDocs.Conversion Cloud to optimize PDF document for web or optimize the PDF file size. I will be using cURL in the following examples. You can use the SDK of your favorite programming language, without worrying about underlying REST API calls.
Optimize PDF Document for Web
Optimization, or
linearization for Web, refers to the process of making a PDF file suitable for
online browsing using a web browser. The linearized PDF file loads faster over
the Internet. Because, linearized PDF files contains information that allow a
byte-streaming server to download the PDF file one page at a time. If the byte-streaming
is disabled on the server or if the PDF file is not linearized, the entire PDF
file must be downloaded before it can be viewed. Check the cURL API command to
optimize a PDF file for web display:
Optimize PDF for web
Optimize PDF File
Size
To optimize PDF file
size, we can use several techniques to optimize PDF. GroupDocs.Conversion Cloud
provides following properties to optimize the file size:
compressImages
imageQuality
linkDuplicateStreams
unembedFonts
removeUnusedObjects
removeUnusedStreams
Feel free to drop us a comment at the support forum sharing your thoughts about GroupDocs.Conversion Cloud API. Or let us know if you have any suggestions or if you need any particular features which you expect our REST API to have.
And if you’ve not already had a chance to try our REST API, simply start a free trial today. All you need is to sign up with the groupdocs.cloud. Once you’ve signed up, you’re ready to try the powerful file processing features offered by groupdocs.cloud.
GroupDocs is glad to share with you that GroupDocs.Storage Cloud API features are now more simplified. Files and folders storage and their manipulation are no more dependent on the separate GroupDocs.Storage Cloud API, however, these features are available as micro-service within every 
