Riverdocs is currently focusing on providing an end-to-end document conversion service.
This information is provided to assist existing software users only.
| FEATURE | PRODUCT | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RiverDocs Converter | RiverDocs Server | RiverDocs Converter Enterprise Edition |
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| CONVERSION | Contributor | Editor | ||
| Source formats PDF, DOC, RTF, ODT, RIVERDOCS project file | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Batch conversion (customisation option) | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| OneClick Converter: Fully automatic conversion of specialised in-house document types (customisation option) | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Accessibility processing: During automatic conversion processing and subsequent accessibility updating, as well as detecting accessibility issues the Converter fixes a large number of them. | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| New in version 2: PNG image format converted. Improved HTML encoding of table output and support for additional characters and formatting. Better table detection, including support for merged cells. |
yes | yes | yes | yes |
| CONVERSION AND PUBLISHING OPTIONS | ||||
| Publish button that opens a dialogue box allowing the user to save the output in a selected format. | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Options button that opens a dialogue box with sections for making publishing and conversion configuration settings (listed below). | yes | no | no | yes |
| HTML Creation settings:
Publish mode options: Single file | Section-based | Page-based Section-splitting threshold: H1 | H2 | H3 HTML Tidy Configuration Section 508 (new in version 2)| XHTML 1.0A | XHTML 1.0AA | XHTML 1.0AA [Strict] |
yes | no | no | yes |
| CSS Options settings: Use Custom CSS file File location (type path/browse) Relative path (type) | yes | yes | no | yes |
| Tutorial options settings: Turn startup tutorials on/off. | yes | no | no | yes |
| HTML Navigation settings: Enabling insertion of navigation links (checkbox) Editing names of links |
yes | no | no | yes |
| Source document settings: Image handling: Process all | Ignore (DTP) | Ignore (scanned) New in version 2: Headers and footers: None | Document mode | Page mode |
yes | no | no | yes |
| SAVE OPTIONS | ||||
| Main toolbar Save button and Save as pop-up menu, allowing the user to save work in progress as a .riverdocs project file and change the saved filename. | yes | no | no | yes |
| Publish button (see Publishing options above) | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| DISPLAY | ||||
| Original pane that displays unconverted file, with controls for zooming and selecting alternative page views | yes | no | yes | yes |
| Editing pane that displays converted file and allows user to edit HTML | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Adjust relative size of view panes by dragging divisions with mouse | yes | no | yes (width only) | yes |
| Accessibility issues list with description of the issue, user advice, highlighting of the affected item in the converted output when the user selects the issue, and self-updating of the list during editing. | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Accessibility issue counter, updatable during editing, displaying current number of accessibility issues listed for a page or the entire converted document, including any introduced inadvertently by user. | yes | no | no | yes |
| EDITING CONVERTED FILE | ||||
| HTML editing via Editing pane preview, GUI buttons and menus | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| View and edit converted HTML page source code | yes | yes | no | yes |
| CSS style editing | yes | yes | no | yes |
| Accessibility editing (basic) | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Accessibility editing (advanced) | yes | no | no | yes |
| Screen capture from original document
display (copy and paste). New text and table options in version 2 Capture modes: Image | Table | Text (flow) | Text (no flow) | Table and text (flow) |
yes | no | yes | yes |
| New in version 2: Copy and paste Word to HTML Import items from Microsoft Word into a converted document. Pasted Word text, tables and images (including tables copied from Excel spreadsheets) are converted to accessible HTML on the fly. Clipboard items can also be pasted from RTF and from other applications including Publisher (PUB files) and Notepad. |
yes | text only | yes | yes |
| INTERFACE AND USABILITY | ||||
| Fully featured conversion, editing, configuration and navigation | yes | no | no | yes |
| Wizard-style, step-by-step GUI with additional user prompts and forwarding of work in progress to RiverDocs Editor user | no | no | yes | no |
| Web interface | no | yes | no | no |
| New in version 2: Default folder settings: Set default folders for Open, Save and Publish |
yes | no | yes | yes |
| ELECTRONIC CONTENT MANAGEMENT (ECM ) INTEGRATION (i.e. CMS integration) | ||||
| Integration | no | yes | yes | yes |
| User profile manager (configures RiverDocs version GUI at startup on a user role basis) | no | yes | yes | yes |
| Administrator web interface | no | yes | no | no |
| GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE ACCESSIBILITY | ||||
| GUI mouse controls have alt texts and menu alternatives with keyboard shortcuts | yes | alt texts only (web interface) |
yes | yes |
| GUI information not conveyed by colour alone | yes | yes | yes | yes |