SHAREPOINT AND ECM IMAGE VIEWER

BY ACCUSOFT AUGUST 27, 2015 MARKUS TIMPNER LEAVE A COMMENT

Getting to know third-party tools and addons for SharePoint (or any other ECM/EIM/Portal/You

name it) is always interesting and adds valuable items to the consulting toolbox.

While systems like SharePoint already come with a lot of functionality and capailities out of the

box, there will always be gaps and there will always be functionality you miss.

Of course you can build anything on those platform,but just buying components is often the

faster an cheaper alternative. In any architectural process you should always, make the build or

buy consideration a central piece of action, but that is another story.

A few days ago I had the chance to get a demo on product from a company called Accusoft,

especially we had a close look to their image viewer. Viewing files online without downloading

is always on the list and vey often it is not enough to handle Microsoft Office- and PDF-files.

Accusoft is a software vendor from the US specialized on addon components and SDKs for

ECM product suites and platforms with a special focus on input- and output-management

functionality.

During the great demo by two guys from Accusoft we had a special focus on their image viewer

component. This viewer is available for SharePoint and also standalone. Both versions are

HTML5-based and can be integrated in a lot of ECM-products.

This image viewer provides several nice features, especially the capability to view, annotate and

comment a lot (really a lot) of document and image formats. Those formats range from

documents like Microsoft Office (of course) and PDF, a lot of image file formats, up to files and

formats in the computer aided design (CAD) area. All this files can also be converted into PDF

directly from the viewer. Great feature.

The complete list of supported formats and an online demo can be found

here: https://www.accusoft.com/demos/file-type-demo/

The viewer also comes with digital rights management features, that can be used to prevent

printing and downloading a file.

From my point of view, that viewer is really nice and could be taken into consideration in a lot

projects, especially in the financial and engineering sector.

So another piece in the toolbox.