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Alfresco One 5.x Developer's Guide - Second Edition
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Alfresco One 5.x Developer's Guide - Second Edition

by Jeff Potts, Benjamin Chevallereau
February 2017
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
11h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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Transforming content from one format to another

A content transformer is used to transform content from one format to another. Content transformers are implemented as a Java class configured as a Spring bean. Alfresco finds the appropriate transformer based on source and target MIME type. There are two important use cases for transformers. The first is when an end user triggers a transformation, usually through an action. The most well-known out of the box example is converting Microsoft Office documents to PDF. Other out of the box transformers include:

  • HTML-to-text
  • Microsoft Excel-to-CSV
  • Microsoft Word-to-text
  • PDF-to-text
  • Images-to-Images

See the Appendix for further details on the out of the box transformers.

The second key transformer use case involves ...

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