CambridgeDocs xDoc Server / APIs

For Ongoing, Cross-platform, Document Conversion and Publishing:

The xDoc Server is the only Java server system available today capable of converting and publishing Microsoft Word, Adobe PDF, Adobe FrameMaker, and HTML content on all major platforms, including Windows, Linux, and Solaris systems.

With the xDoc Server, you are now able to read, parse, and convert Word, PDF, FrameMaker and HTML files into any custom or standard XML schema or DTD, suitable for powerful database indexing and content chunking.  With the same server you can now reassemble and publish XML content into RTF, PDF, and HTML formats for multi-channel publishing solutions.

The xDoc Server APIs allow you to embed its conversion and publishing capabilities into your own content-centric application by calling its Java, .NET or Command-Line APIs.  Alternatively, you can post data to its servlet interface, for maximal server application modularity, performance, and system protection.

The xDoc architecture contains a powerful "rules engine," called the XTE, which is used to extract content from existing sources, whether that's pure metadata or body content to any degree of granularity. This extracted content is then transformed into whatever XML schema meets your needs.

xDoc rules are reusable in different contexts, can be edited at will, and may contain either very simple commands or extremely complex transformation instructions. The rules engine is also extensible, so you can add your own rule types in addition to our own comprehensive set.

xDoc also contains our advanced semantic parsing rules, which allow you to define "intelligent" rules that are applied to source unstructured content. These rules can be applied across documents that are similar (examples might be a series of press releases or investment reports) but don't have exactly the same structure as they come from different sources.

By developing the rules with the xDoc Converter Desktop, and deploying them in an xDoc Server solution, you have the ultimate easy-to-use, powerful, cross-platform solution to enhance the conversion and publishing capabilities of your own content-centric server application.

Download The xDoc Server:

For Linux or Solaris Platforms:

If you are evaluating the xDoc Server on either a Linux or Solaris machine, you should download the xDoc Server Cross-platform Edition.  This version of xDoc is a complete working tarball image, with the Java, XSLT, and prepackaged rules portions of the product.  It can be readily installed on any Unix system, and is perhaps the easiest to integrate with a J2EE application server like BEA WebLogic or IBM WebSphere.  

The xDoc Server Cross-platform Edition runs on top of Sun Java Runtime 1.4.2.  In order for it to run, you have to have the full Java Developer's Kit 1.4.2 installed on your system.

Download JDK 1.4.2

Download CambridgeDocs xDoc Server Cross-platform Edition 2.2

For Windows Platforms:

Because the xDoc Converter Desktop and the xDoc Server use the exact same underlying technology, if you are evaluating the xDoc Server on a Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 machine, we recommend that you first download and install the xDoc Converter Desktop, and then download and install the xDoc API Package.  Together these two downloads provide you with everything that is found in the xDoc Server Cross-platform Edition: you can investigate and run samples of the xDoc Java, Command-Line, and .NET APIs.  In addition, however, these two downloads also allow you to visually evaluate transformations and create rules using the xDoc Converter Desktop. 

The xDoc Converter Desktop is a Microsoft .NET application, so in order for it to run, you have to have Microsoft .NET Framework, Version 1.1 Service Pack 1, installed on your system.

Download Microsoft .NET 1.1

Download Microsoft .NET SP1

Download CambridgeDocs xDoc Converter Desktop 2.2

Download CambridgeDocs xDoc API Package 2.2