Docverter
Data
document conversion
SHOW HN2012
146points
36comments
#133of 1,677 in 2012
Top 8%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
5 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 21 comments about the project. Thread score +0.20.
Pricing: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Thanks for open-sourcing it
From 3 comments
An remarkably odd bit of timing: I saw your initial announcement 6 weeks ago, bookmarked your site for a project I've been working on, and just tonight finally got to the stage…
nlh on HNThis is neat! Thanks for making it open source.
z0a on HNThank you!
shock on HN
Works out-of-the-box on Heroku
From 1 comment
Thanks for this. It boots pretty much out-of-the-box on our platform thanks to the Heroku support: http://docverter.a.pogoapp.com/ - very cool buildpack use BTW I sent in a…
themgt on HN
Objections
Hosted paid service did not succeed as a business
From 2 comments
Too bad you couldn't make it work as a business. I have something similar, but a slightly different focus (image->image and pdf->image using Ghostscript/Imagemagick) here:…
latchkey on HNI've implemented a very nice word to html converter previously but market research have shown that people are barely willing to pay for such a service. Maybe related consulting…
z-factor on HN
Requests
Keep a hosted version running as a paid service
From 2 comments
My advice, for what it's worth, and based on my experience building and running https://openexchangerates.org, would be to continue to offer it free (in your case, open sourced)…
josscrowcroft on HNDonate buttons are a good idea, thanks. I'll have one up later today. As for keeping a hosted version running, I'll consider it. Your reasons for wanting one are the same reasons…
zrail on HN
Broaden the range of supported formats
From 1 comment
Shameless plug, I have a webservice (http://thumbr.it/) similar to your project, but I also added instagram like filters to the images and it converts word and pdf files to…
e98cuenc on HN
Questions
Is there a good PDF to EPUB conversion option?
From 1 comment
is there something good for pdf conversion to epub?
aleemb on HN
Alternatives named
Zamzar
From 1 comment
Not sure what you're looking to do, but have you seen Zamzar? http://zamzar.com
bravoyankee on HN
Aspose / SaaSPose
From 1 comment
Another startup operating in this domain is http://saaspose.com they offer Restful API's for many different conversions and document manipulations, plus basic plan is super cheap.
dkaretaic on HN
Pandoc, LibreOffice, AbiWord
From 1 comment
Why use MS Office for that? I've built a file sharing site that uses LibreOffice amongst others to convert files to mobile and tablet friendly previews. Best part of LibreOffice?…
dutchbrit on HN
Calibre
From 1 comment
Calibre [1] can do a reasonably good job on most types of PDF files, but a lot depends on the type of PDF file you want to convert. PDF is essentially a container format, and as…
jcr on HN
pdf2htmlEX
From 1 comment
There is a very good pdf-to-html converter at [0], so it's a two-step process. [0] https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX
Toshio on HN