GroupDocs.Merger Cloud is Launching Soon!

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:

Format Description
DOC Microsoft Word Document
DOCX Microsoft Word Open XML Document
DOCM Word Open XML Macro-Enabled Document
DOT Word Document Template
DOTX Word Open XML Document Template
DOTM Word Open XML Macro-Enabled Document Template
RTF Rich Text Format File
TXT Plain Text File
ODT OpenDocument Text Document
OTT OpenDocument Document Template
HTML Hypertext Markup Language File
MHT MHTML Web Archive
PDF Portable Document Format File
XPS XML Paper Specification File
TEX LaTeX Source Document
EPUB Open eBook File
PPT Microsoft PowerPoint 97-2003 Presentation
PPTX Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation
PPS Microsoft PowerPoint 97-2003 Slide Show
PPSX Microsoft PowerPoint Slide Show
ODP OpenDocument Presentation
OTP OpenDocument Presentation Template
XLS Microsoft Excel 97-2003 Worksheet
XLSX Microsoft Excel Worksheet
XLSB Microsoft Excel Binary Worksheet
XLSM Microsoft Excel Macro-Enabled Worksheet
XLT Microsoft Excel Template File
XLTX Excel Open XML Spreadsheet Template
XLTM Excel Open XML Macro-Enabled Spreadsheet Template
ODS OpenDocument Spreadsheet
VSDX Microsoft Visio Drawing
VSDM Microsoft Visio Macro-Enabled Drawing
VSSX Microsoft Visio Stencil
VSSM Microsoft Visio Macro-Enabled Stencil
VSTX Microsoft Visio Template
VSTM Microsoft Visio Macro-Enabled Template
VDX Microsoft Visio 2003-2010 XML Drawing
VSX Microsoft Visio 2003-2010 XML Stencil
VTX Microsoft Visio 2003-2010 XML Template
ONE Microsoft OneNote
CSV Comma Separated Values File
TSV Tab Separated Values File

Our first version

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.

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Render Documents to HTML5 with Cloud Java SDK

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.

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Extract Text from a PDF Document with Python using GroupDocs.Conversion Cloud

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:

  • Free sign up with groupdocs.cloud to get your AppSID and AppKey
  • 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.

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A Reliable RESTful API Solution to Optimize PDF Document

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.

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Classify raw text in MS Office, PDF and many other documents using cURL

What is Text Classification?

Text classification is the process of assigning tags or categories to text according to its content with broad applications such as sentiment analysis, topic labeling, spam detection, and intent detection.

GroupDocs.Classification Cloud API
GroupDocs.Classification Cloud

Unstructured data in the form of raw text is everywhere: emails, chats, web pages, social media, support tickets, survey responses, and more. Text can be an extremely rich source of information, but extracting insights from it can be hard and time-consuming due to its unstructured nature. Businesses are turning to text classification for structuring text in a fast and cost-efficient way to enhance decision-making and automate processes.

What is Taxonomy?

Taxonomy is the practice and science of classification. The word is also used as a taxonomic scheme. Taxonomy is a particular classification. In a wider, more general sense, it may refer to a classification of things or concepts, as well as to the principles underlying such a classification.

GroupDocs.Classification Cloud API

GroupDocs.Classification Cloud API retrieves raw text classification output for IAB-2 taxonomy or Documents taxonomy. It returns an object that contains information about the best class and its probability and about probabilities of the other classes.

IAB-2 Taxonomy Example

GroupDocs.Classification Cloud API supports IAB-2 taxonomy scheme, Some of the taxonomy examples are listed below :

  • ‘Automotive’,
  • ‘Books_and_Literature’,
  • ‘Business_and_Finance’,
  • ‘Careers’,
  • ‘Education’,
  • ‘Events_and_Attractions’,
  • ‘Family_and_Relationships’,
  • ‘Fine_Art’,
  • ‘Food_&_Drink’,
  • ‘Healthy_Living’,
  • ‘Hobbies_&_Interests’,
  • ‘Home_&_Garden’,
  • ‘Medical_Health’,
  • ‘Movies’,
  • ‘Music_and_Audio’,
  • ‘News_and_Politics’,
  • ‘Personal_Finance’
  • etc.

cURL Request

Response

.NET Example

Documents Taxonomy Example

Documents taxonomy includes the following list in GroupDocs.Classification Cloud API:

  • ADVE – advertisements, brochures.
  • Email
  • Form
  • Letter
  • Memo – memorandums.
  • News – articles, including news articles.
  • Invoice
  • Report
  • Resume 
  • Scientific – scientific papers.
  • Other – the other classes of documents or cases where the classifier is not sure.

cURL Request

Response

.NET Example

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A REST API Solution to Redact PDF Text

GroupDocs.Annotation Cloud API is a platform independent Document and Image Annotation Solution, that empowers the developers to add an annotation feature in their application with minimum efforts. The API supports a range of Annotation types, but in this post I will focus on the Text Redaction Annotation to demonstrate how to redact PDF text.

Text Redaction is a process to remove content from a document permanently. Before you publish the document, you need to remove sensitive and private data from the document. GroupDocs.Annotation Cloud provides, the Text Redaction Annotation to redact the text on the certain page region. Text redaction fills part of text with a black rectangle, to hide underlying word or phrase.

Let me give you a quick overview of how to redact text with GroupDocs.Annotation Cloud with a simple set of HTTP requests. I will be using cURL to redact text in a PDF document in this example. The API is not limited to PDF file format, you can check the complete list of supported file formats. It also provides SDKs for all popular programming languages. You can check the available SDKs from GitHub repository with working examples and use directly in your application.

We will follow these steps to find the duplicate images:

  • Generate access token for authentication
  • Upload source document to storage
  • Add Annotation to document
  • Download annotated document

Generate Access Token

Upload source document to storage

Annotate source document

The SvgPath property is used to add the text redaction annotation and coordinates of SvgPath property start from bottom of the document page and increase to the top.

Download Annotated document

If you’ve not already tried our REST API, we encourage you to head over to GroupDocs.Annotation Cloud with a free trial today. All you need is to sign up with the groupdocs.cloud. Once you’ve signed up, you may go through the following useful resources of GroupDocs.Annotation Cloud.

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Add Electronic Signature to your Documents

What is an Electronic Signature?

An electronic signature or e-signature refers to data in electronic form which is logically associated with other data in electronic form and which is used by the signatory to sign. This type of signature provides the same legal standing as a handwritten signature as long as it adheres to the requirements of the specific regulation. E-Signatures can be in the form of digital text, images, barcode, QR codes, etc.

Electronic signatures are a legal concept distinct from digital signatures, a cryptographic mechanism often used to implement electronic signatures. While an electronic signature can be as simple as a name entered in an electronic document, digital signatures are increasingly used in e-commerce and in regulatory filings to implement electronic signatures in a cryptographically protected way.

GroupDocs.Signature Cloud API?

GroupDocs.Signature Cloud is a REST API to create, verify and search different types of Signature objects to documents in the cloud. There are five major types of supported Signature you can operate with:

  • Text Signature
  • Barcode Signature
  • QR Code Signature
  • Digital Signature
  • Image Signature
  • Stamp Signature

How to work with barcode document using e-signing API?

This API is intended to add electronic signatures to the documents, based on the parameters passed as an array of signature options. The rendered document can be downloaded using the output URLs or paths.

Here are the steps to work with document signature:

  1. Upload File to a Storage.
  2. Create a Signature.
  3. Verify a Signature.
  4. Search a Signature.
  5. Download HTML File.

1. Upload File to a Storage

The following code demonstrates how to upload files to a storage.

Now our file “one-page.docx” is available under folder “signaturedocs” on storage.

2. Creating a Barcode Signature

GroupDocs.Signature Cloud REST API supports to sign a document with Barcode. It provides methods to create Barcode Signature in Document Pages with different options of Barcode type, location, alignment, font, margins, and appearances by using Signature Option Objects data in the request body.

The following code demonstrates, how to Create Barcode Signature.


3. Verify a Signature

GroupDocs.Signature Cloud REST API provides methods to verify Barcode Signature in Documents Pages with different options for page number, text and search criteria by using Verification Options Objects data in the request body.

The following code demonstrates, how to Verify Barcode Signature .

4. Search a Signature

GroupDocs.Signature Cloud API provides a method to search Barcode Signature in Document Pages with different options barcode type, Name, text, match type, and other search features by using Search Options Object data in the request body.

The following code demonstrates, how to Search Barcode Signature .

5. Download File

The following code demonstrates, how to download a specific file.

That’s it.

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Rendering CAD File Formats was Never So Easy Before

CAD (Computer Aided Design)

It is used for a 3D graphics file format and may contain 2D or 3D designs. CAD file is a digital file format of an object generated and used by CAD software. A CAD file contains a technical drawing, blueprint, schematic, or 3-D rendering of an object.

GroupDocs.Viewer Cloud API

GroupDocs.Viewer Cloud API is flexible document rendering and viewing solution for programmers and professionals to render and display widely used file formats anywhere.

Supported CAD File Formats

File Extension File Format
DGN MicroStation Design File
DWF Design Web Format
DWG Autodesk Design Data Formats
DXF Autodesk Drawing Exchange File Format
IFC Industry Foundation Classes File
STL Stereolithography File

How to Render HTML View of CAD File Formats

Our document rendering and viewing solution is empowering developer with options to render the CAD file formats in their applications with a few lines of instructions, which includes options like enlarging the output, set the height and width of the output file etc.

Here are the steps to render the HTML view of a CAD file:

  1. Upload File to a Storage.
  2. Create HTML View.
  3. Download HTML File.

1. Upload File to a Storage

The following code demonstrates how to upload files to a storage.

Now our file “three-layouts.dwf” is available under folder “viewerdocs” on storage.

2. Create HTML View

GroupDocs.Viewer Cloud API does this CAD to HTML rendering in the cloud using stored files, when CAD documents are rendered, the size of the rendering result is adjusted by API automatically depending on the size of the initial document.

However, we can also set the output result files by providing the CadOptions available in GroupDocs.Viewer Cloud API such as:

ScaleFactor

Scale factor allows to change the size of the output document. Values higher than 1 will enlarge output result and values between 0 and 1 will make output result smaller. 
This option is ignored when either Height or Width options are set.

Width

The width of the output result in pixels.

Height

The height of the output result in pixels.

The Following code demonstrates, how to create an HTML view of a CAD file Formats.

CAD file to HTML view is created and output HTML is available in storage to download.

3. Download HTML File

The following code demonstrates, how to download a specific file.

That’s it.

GroupDocs.Viewer Cloud Resources

Following are the links to some useful resources you may need to accomplish your tasks.

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Introducing GroupDocs.Comparison Cloud 19.5!

Guys! New version of Groupdocs.Comparison Cloud 19.5 is here. Your feedback and interest in our Document Comparison Cloud API keeps us motivated to implement new features. It is all new API; in this version we have implemented the API as a Microservice. It improves the performance and stability of the API. New API has less methods and options. We have also introduced new methods for cloud storage operations in GroupDocs.Comparison Cloud API. I will give you an overview of some of the new features in the following sections. For complete details of new features and enhancement, please check the release notes of this version.

New API Version

We have introduced V2 API Version in 19.5 version and following base URL will be used. Please note V1 will remain available.

https://api.groupdocs.cloud/v2.0/comparison/

Authentication

For improved security, we have introduced JWT(JSON Web Token) authentication in this release. OAuth2 and URL signing authentication methods are not supported any more by V2 API Version. Let us show you how to get JWT Access Token.

Storage APIs

Now onward, you do not need to use GroupDocs.Storage Cloud REST API for storage operations. GroupDocs.Comparison Cloud API has introduced following API methods for the purpose.

File API – Introduced methods for upload, download, copy, move, delete files : input documents and rendering results, in the cloud storage

Upload file to Storage

Download file from Storage

Folder API – Introduced methods for create, copy, move, delete folders in the cloud storage

Storage API – Introduced methods for getting storage information and file information

Comparison API

In this digital era, Document comparison is a basic requirement of individuals and organizations for their legal and financial tasks. And GroupDocs.Comparison Cloud REST API is a proven API for developers to add this feature in their applications without worrying about platform dependence. It can be used on any platform without any third party software. It provides simple methods to compare most popular business file formats (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, Images, Email, Html, Note). Following API methods

Comparisons – Compares source and target documents and returns a link to saved result

POST ​/comparison​/comparisons

Changes – Retrieves a list of changes between source and target documents

POST ​/comparison​/changes

Update – Accepts or rejects changes to the resultant document and returns a link to saved result

PUT ​/comparison​/updates

Here we will show you how easily you can compare two versions of the same document for changes with default Comparison options and get result document path. You just need to upload source and target document to storage and call comparisons API method. This is how you can achieve this tasks using cURL, however you can refer to the complete list of available SDKs to use GroupDocs.Comparison Cloud API directly in your favorite platform.

Got a question or Bug? Please feel free to drop us a comment below or post a question in support forum. It helps us to continually improve and refine our API.

Still haven’t tried GroupDocs.Comparison Cloud? The free trial is right here waiting for you to give it a try and explore the power of the Comparison REST API. All you need is to sign up with the groupdocs.cloud.

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GroupDocs.Annotation Cloud 19.5

Great news for developers! All new GroupDocs.Annotation Cloud 19.5 is introduced. We are committed to evolving GroupDocs.Annotation Cloud REST API to make it more simplified and easy to use. With this in mind, we’ve made necessary changes in this version. The new API is more optimized with less methods and options. Its internal architecture is revamped for fast and reliable processing to build Document & Image Annotation tools with support for Text & Figure based annotation operations. Also now the API includes methods for working with cloud storage. So you can perform storage operations using GroupDocs.Annotation Cloud REST API directly instead of using separate API.

Please check the detailed release notes of this version to get an idea about all the new features/enhancements made in this release.

Breaking Changes

New API Version

Introduced API version V2 in 19.5 version, V1 will remain available.

Authentication

JWT(JSON Web Token) authentication is introduced in this release, now OAuth2 and URL signing authentication methods are obsolete now.

Annotation API

Simplified API methods to apply Text and Figure based annotations to documents & images of all popular formats.

Storage APIs

File API – Introduced methods for upload, download, copy, move, delete files : input documents and rendering results, in the cloud storage

Folder API – Introduced methods for create, copy, move, delete folders in the cloud storage

Storage API – Introduced methods for getting storage information and file information

Add Annotations to Document

Here we will show you how GroupDocs.Annotation Cloud V2 API version works and it is different than V1. We will add annotation in a Word document using GroupDocs.Annotation Cloud SDK for .NET by following these steps:

  • Upload source document to Storage
  • Add Annotaition to source document

We need to upload source document to Cloud storage as in this example we will process document from Cloud storage. In the release we introduced File API for file storage operations. We will use UploadFile method of Annotation V2 API version instead of GroupDocs.Storage Cloud API method to upload file to storage.

In 19.5 version, PUT method for import of annotation has been changed to POST method, as shown in following sample code.

V1.1 Example

V2.0 Example

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