OwnCloud is the most popular and common OpenSource Cloud software which is used for both private- and public-clouds. OwnCloud is available as an OpenSource (community edition) as well as an extended Enterprise version. We also use OwnCloud in our company to make files externally accessible and share them with our partners in a quick and easy way. Files can be synchronized automatically and can also be retrieved via mobile apps on the smartphone or tablet.

The functionality of OwnCloud can be extendes with server apps and there is already a great amount of different apps for various scopes of application which are available to download for free.

On this basis, we developed an integration between AutoOCR and our FileConverterPro server / service. With it most Office, CAD and e-mail document formats can be converted to searchable PDF or PDF/A-1b, PDF/A-3b automatically or interactive / manually  incl. OCR directly from the OwnCloud.

Supported FCpro file-formats:

• DOC, DOCX, DOCM, RTF, TXT, ODT
• XLS, XLSX, XLSM
• PPT, PPTX, PPS, PPSX,
• FDF, XFDF (Adobe forms),
• XML
• PNG, BMP, TIF, TIFF, JPG, JPEG, GIF
• ZIP, RAR, 7Z,
• MSG, EML,
• PDF,
• HTM, HTML, MHTML,
• PMTX (PDFMerge)
• DWG, DXF, DWF
• Abbyy: PDF, TIF, TIFF, PNG, JPG, JPEG, BMP, GIF, PCX, DCX, JP2, JPC, DJV, DJVU, WDP
• iOCR:  PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG

Unterstützte Output-Formate:

• PDF
• PDF/A-1b
• PDF/A-3b
• ZUGFeRD

How the conversion should take place can be chosen from the processing profiles which are stored on the FileConverterPro / AutoOCR server. Behind these profiles there can be a whole set of options and settings which not only offer the conversion but, with the FCpro, also additional extended functions e.g.:

• underlay stationery
• add stamps or watermarks
• pagination
• insert header and footer
• generate table of content
• control file-permissions and document-security

Container formats like ZIP, RAR, 7Zip or e-mail container like MSG / EML which can contain multiple files or nested attachements get resolved by the FCpro, converted and merged to an overall-PDF with bookmarks.

Download – OwnCloud App – integration withAutoOCR / FileConverterPro >>>

Caution: The conversion is initiated from the OwnCloud server via “Crown” job with a setable intervall. To shorten the waiting period the, by default set to 15 min., interval should be set to 1 to 5 min.

There is now also a freely available Android App which works together with our FileConverterPro und AutoOCR – server / service. With it, a multitude of document formats incl. text recognition (OCR) can be converted to searchable PDF or PDF/A files. Via ZIP contaioner also multiple files can be combined to get an overall-PDF from the single-documents (merge).

Scope:

• mobile / tablet as scanner – creates searchable PDF’s
• create documents mobile – e.g. with Google DOCS – to afterwards provide them with staitionery or watermarks as PDF.
• combine multiple files as ZIP – creation of an overall-PDF with bookmarks.

Supported input-formats:

• DOC, DOCX, DOCM, RTF, TXT, ODT
• XLS, XLSX, XLSM
• PPT, PPTX, PPS, PPSX,
• FDF, XFDF (Adobe forms),
• XML
• PNG, BMP, TIF, TIFF, JPG, JPEG, GIF
• ZIP, RAR, 7Z,
• MSG, EML,
• PDF,
• HTM, HTML, MHTML,
• DWG, DXF, DWF
• Abbyy: PDF, TIF, TIFF, PNG, JPG, JPEG, BMP, GIF, PCX, DCX, JP2, JPC, DJV, DJVU, WDP
• iOCR:  PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG

Supported output-formats:

• PDF
• PDF/A-1b
• PDF/A-3b
• ZUGFeRD

How the conversion should be done can be chosen via processing profiles stored on the server, which can be chosen in the app. Behind these profiles there can be a whole set of options and settings which not only control the conversion but also additional extended functions – e.g.:

• underlay stationery
• add watermarks and stamps
• pagination
• add header and footer
• create table of contents
• control rights and document-security

As good addition to our app it makes sense to also install the following apps:

• Google DOCS / tables – to write Word / Excel files – these then can immidiately be converted to PDF and e.g. underlayed with stationery
• Scanbot – to quickly and easily scan documents
• ES Datei Explorer – to easily manage the documents and files and to create ZIP files – single-documents can be merged to an overall-PDF via ZIP

After the installation the app has set our hosted FileConverterPro test-server by default, with which tests with own documents can be run immidiately and without any further expense.

To be able to quickly and easily develope apps which can interact with our FileConverterPro or AutoOCR servers through the REST interface, we published an Android library. Based on this library also our FileConverterPro Android App, which is now available for download on Google Play, was developed. This library can also be used as base for Java applications on other platforms.

Download – Android library for FileConverterPro and AutoOCR >>>