KeyView Export SDK

It is difficult, expensive, and sometimes even impossible to ensure end-users have the appropriate applications or plug-ins required to handle the multitude of document formats on the market. Similarly, building and maintaining commercial software applications that can interact with hundreds of file formats can be prohibitively complex and costly. Standardizing on Web-ready HTML or valid XML is the obvious solution. With Verity KeyView Export, you can make any document widely accessible and usable by delivering Web-ready HTML and valid XML to end-users and applications.

Key Capabilities

Convert Multiple Documents Simultaneously

KeyView Export can be configured to convert files to XML and HTML in the same process as the calling application (in-process) or as a separate process (out-of-process). Out-of-process conversion enables multiple conversion requests to be sent from multiple threads in the calling application simultaneously, while maintaining the same functionality as a single-process conversion and protecting the stability and robustness of the calling application in the event a corrupt document causes an exception.

Configure Memory Management to Meet Specific Application Requirements

Memory management is configurable with KeyView Export. This allows developers to provide their own memory allocator.

Detect File Formats Automatically

All KeyView products, including KeyView Export, automatically recognize file types and apply the correct filter without relying on filename extensions.

Convert the File Formats that Matter Most

All popular word processing, spreadsheet and presentation formats are supported, including Adobe PDF.

Rapidly Integrate XML/HTML Conversion into Your Applications

Rapid, straightforward integration of KeyView Export with your application is delivered by a flexible API. Sample C, Visual Basic and Java programs are included that demonstrate how the API is called.

Key Capabilities Specific to XML Export

KeyView Export dynamically converts documents to well-formed, valid XML using a predefined Verity Document Type Definition (DTD). By applying an XML vocabulary to the data structures in documents, KeyView Export makes it possible to index and search content and metadata in context.

Control Data Structure Conversion

The data structures in source documents that are used to create zones during conversion can include such things as metadata (title, author, subject), document components (headers, footers, footnotes), tagged text (heading levels, bulleted lists, body text), table components (sheet name, row ID, column ID), and presentation components (notes, slide title).

Control XML Formatting

Although viewing is not the main emphasis of KeyView Export, the XML output can be displayed in standard browsers using cascading style sheets (CSS) or extensible stylesheet language (XSL). Using XSL, background, colors and fonts can be applied to enforce corporate style guidelines. Sample style sheets are provided for word processing, spreadsheet and presentation documents.

Key Capabilities Specific to HTML Export

KeyView Export automatically converts documents to fully compliant, Web-ready HTML. This gives your Web-based information delivery application the ability to display almost any content in users' Web browsers.

Control Document Conversion

Documents can be converted to HTML either on the fly or in batches, with graphics converted to any standard format including JPEG and Java. The resulting HTML is fully HTML 3.0 compliant and supported by all browsers. This is especially important for applications that will be used in large or complex enterprises, where requiring users to standardize on a single browser is impossible.

Control HTML Formatting

KeyView Export lets you control the design and behavior of the generated HTML through custom templates and cascading style sheets (CSS). Source document characteristics such as tables, graphics and font attributes can be preserved, or corporate style guidelines can be enforced. For easier navigation and downloading, documents can be broken down into linked Web pages based on attributes like heading level or document size. Similarly, tables of contents can be generated from existing document structure and/or font characteristics.