Alfresco One 5.x Developer's Guide - second edition

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 ...