Microsoft Word Document Conversion and Viewing

Snowbound’s imaging SDKs and applications for viewing and converting Microsoft Word documents are more powerful and flexible than any other imaging solution available.

• Our RasterMaster imaging SDK allows you to build viewing, conversion and over 140 other expert imaging functions securely into your custom applications to support MS Word files. Conversion from MS Word is handled directly and rapidly by RasterMaster, without needing to invoke a print driver or another external application.
• Our powerful FlexSnap document and image web viewer enables you to view, convert, manipulate, annotate, and print MS Word files through a standard Web browser. Because our FlexSnap viewers are developed from our robust Java imaging SDK, they support all of the file formats offered in our Java library.
• SnowBatch, our batch conversion application, provides you the capability to perform rapid batch conversion right from your desktop or server.  The easy-to-use interface will enable you to quickly convert all your MS Word files to formats suitable for viewing or storage.

Text Extraction, Creating Searchable PDFs and Content Aggregation

One of RasterMaster’s powerful MS Word handling feature is its ability to extract text. This provides you with the capabilities to:

• Convert files to fully-searchable PDF documents. Graphics, text, tables and more are maintained uniquely within the generated PDF for easy access by Adobe Acrobat or other PDF readers. 
• Create powerful content aggregation tools that streamline database population efforts by leveraging batch extraction of content and formatting data from Microsoft Word documents.

Document Conversion Solutions

Companies use Snowbound Software’s imaging developer tools and complete document viewing solutions to quickly and efficiently convert and standardize their documents from MS Word to PDF files for easy archiving and display.

What is MS Word?

Microsoft Word is a common word processing application for creating and editing text documents. This application is part of a suite of products that handle different document formats.

Notes:

• Purchasing Snowbound's MS Office option provides you with support for Microsoft Excel, Word, and Powerpoint.
• Snowbound supports MS Word document display and conversion.  Saving to MS Word is not offered at this time.
• Open Office XML documents are currently not supported.  These include documents created in MS Office 2007 with the following extensions: .xlsx, .docx, and .pptx
  
  

Important: As we all know document and image specifications are intentionally loosely written and rarely updated. As a result many applications create documents “incorrectly” and they do not adhere to the latest specifications.

In order to maintain the highest ethical standards and help provide customers with the most positive user experience, Snowbound Software recommends that, as part of your purchase process, you test your own sample documents against our products.  Snowbound, unlike most competitors, develops its own technology. If in the rare case you come across a problem or non-conforming document or image, we can often fix it.

P = Plus   J = in Java		Win		Java		.NET		Unix
E = Extended   D = In development		READ	WRITE	READ	WRITE	READ	WRITE	READ	WRITE
O = Optional
Format	Ext
MS Word	doc	O		O		O		J

Complete Format Matrix