Preview Office documents

[vvlad]

Hi,

I hope it's the right forum to ask this.

We have a web application that needs to display a preview of Office documents. The server on which the application runs does not have Office installed on it (it's not allowed), so we are looking for an alternative 3rd party SDK that we could use to provide this functionality.

Can someone recommend something? I've googled a lot but haven't found anything suitable.

Thanks

vlad

 

[AnotherHiggins]

Have you looked at Open Office? (

http://www.openoffice.org)

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[tf1]

Have you thought of using the free to download viewers from Microsoft?

I am a little confused why you need to preview an Office document on the server if you cannot use Office on the server anyway. I realise it is bad practice to use a server as a workstation, but taking that for granted, what is the need to view an Office document there?


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[fumei]

I am as curious as tf1 regarding this.

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[vvlad]

Hi and thanks for the input.

anotherhiggins
We will check that, but this is a .NET/C# application, embedding java could be an overkill.

tf1
We don't need to preview Office documents on the server, the web application itself runs on the server. It is a kind of search application that allows the users to preview in a frame the documents they have searched for.

I have found some programs/ocx that can do that, but they all require Office installed. We already have a client version that works fine, but here we do not have this problem, Office is installed on al workstations.

We already thought about the Microsoft viewers, but didn't find a reasonable way to embed them in a web application.


Perhaps my fisrt post was not clear enough. What we are actually searching for is some SDK that can be used with .NET/C#.

vlad