Document Conversion Service is a highly scalable product with the ability to process many documents in parallel to take advantage of multi-CPU and multi-core systems available today.
Supported Platforms
Only Microsoft® 64-bit operating systems are supported. A minimum of 4GB of memory (RAM) is recommend for best performance.
•Windows Server 2022
•Windows 11
•Windows Server 2019
•Windows Server 2016
•Windows 10
•Windows Server 2012 R2
•Windows Server 2012
Limited Support for End-of-Life Platforms
These Microsoft® Windows operating systems have reached the end of their support lifecycle. Document Conversion Service will still install and run on these platforms, but new features added to Document Conversion Service may not be supported.
•Windows 8.1
•Windows Server 2008 R2
•Windows 7 SP1
Required by Document Conversion Service:
•An account with administrative privileges to use the Document Conversion Service account. This is set up during the installation process but can later be changed as needed through the service properties.
•For concurrent (parallel) document processing, you are only limited by your license and the capabilities of the computer you are running on. The performance of Document Conversion Service is directly tied to the number of CPUs and cores available as well as the configuration settings used to control the amount of resources that can be used by the service.
•To ensure the fidelity of your converted documents, some of the included converters use the application used to create your document in order to do the conversion. For these converters you will need to have installed the necessary third-party applications.
See What Files Can I Convert? for a complete list of the included converters and any required application and versions supported by each.
•The most common required applications are listed here:
oMicrosoft® Office (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, Visio, or Word) for Office documents
oOptional if you do not use the Builtin PDF converter: Adobe® Reader for PDF files
oInternet Explorer for HTML files
oAutodesk Design Review for Autodesk DWF files.
oOptional if you do not use the Builtin Cadd converter: Autodesk DWG TrueView installed with Autodesk Design Review for DWG files.
ofor customers with licensed versions of Outside-In ActiveX Control, you are able to utilize this component as well to perform document conversions
oOptionally install the latest Ghostscript for improved Postscript and PDF file conversion
•The following file types do not need a third-party application and are built-in:
oPDF files using the included PEERNET PDF converter.
oText files using the included PEERNET Text converter.
oDWF, DWFX, PLT and GBX files using the included PEERNET Cadd converter
oPostscript files using Ghostscript.
oMicrosoft XPS (XML Paper Specification) files.
oImage formats including JPEG, TIFF, Windows Bitmap, ZSoft PCX and DCX, CServe Portable Network Graphics and Graphics Interchange Format
•The following printer is occasionally required when creating vector Adobe PDF files.
oMicrosoft® XPS Document Writer
