[OFBiz] Dev -Document conversion (was Undersun OFBiz documentation)

[Adrian Crum]

Make a Java interface that represents a generic conversion service. 
Implementors can flesh out each doc type.

The conversion software doesn't have to be open source. An implementor 
could purchase commercial conversion software and just fashion a custom 
OFBiz conversion service (using the interface mentioned above) to call it.


Al Byers wrote:

> Marcelo,
> 
> You raise another interesting question regarding document conversion. 
> Obviously, we are not going to write document conversion routines. There 
> have to be open source solutions out there. Anyone want to share what 
> they have thought about or used?
> 
> David suggested that we look at some open source packages and see how 
> they do it.
> 
> I have thought about running OpenOffice in a headless mode and use that 
> open source project (can't remember the name right now) for remotely 
> running scripts to open documents and save them in another format.
> 
> Any other ideas?
> 
> -Al
>