There are many product categories in the document online preview market, and today we will take a look at each category and some of the corresponding product brands. Product categories are open source projects, plug-in products, and server deployment products:

The open source project

kkFileView

Product Introduction: KkFileView is a solution for online preview of file documents. The project uses popular Spring Boot to build, easy to get started and deploy, and basically supports online preview of mainstream office documents. Such as doc, docx, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, PDF, TXT, zip, rar, pictures, video, audio, etc Personal comments: As a mature open source project, the application and access is very convenient, but because is a commercial product, in case of technical problems, or on products is conducted by secondary development is more of a need to rely on its own technical strength, such as the preview of the document request is not high, or have a strong enough technical team can consider to choose this, team generally don’t recommend to touch, the risk is bigger.

Plug-in products

A plug-in is a program written in accordance with a certain standard application program interface, which can only run on the specified system platform (may support multiple platforms at the same time), but can not run independently from the specified platform. Because plug-ins need to call libraries or data provided by the original clean system. Plugins in the document online preview domain, usually call native Office products. Plug-in product is in server deployment, arises at the historic moment of a product, in the PC Internet age, the emergence of the plug-in to solve the application demand of the vast majority of people, to the mobile Internet era, the plug-in is beginning to show some of the shortcomings, can’t and mobile app combination is the biggest problem, cause a lot of use of the plug-in system vendors, When developing mobile platforms, we had to go back to the market to find a product that was compatible with both PC and mobile.

Ginger iWebOffice

Product introduction: Kinge middleware is a network document middleware control product independently developed and designed by Jiangxi Kinge Technology Co., LTD., with all independent intellectual property rights. In B/S application mode, it can realize network document management, and realize online document drafting, editing, trace retention, online preservation, online opening, document red, label filling and other functions. The integration mode is simple, the interface is rich, the versatility is strong, can be easily integrated into the third-party application system. All product functions are derived from customers’ actual application requirements, and each function has a high content of gold. The product can be installed and upgraded online automatically without much manual intervention.

ZhuoZheng pageoffice

Product Introduction: PageOffice, a software to change the traditional way of Office, to a variety of management software system and website applications to add online Office ability, let users away from uploading and downloading trouble, create a new era of LAN online Office, whether it is ordinary online editing Word/Excel/PPT, Or complex programming control, reading and writing Word/Excel, will let you at your ease, all worry free. Zhuozheng software took three years to build, and PageOffice 5 was released. PageOffice perfectly supports the online Office platform which is the core of all browsers, perfectly supports high-score screen, multi-screen display, and adds new support. NET CORE, security reinforcement, stable and reliable operation, excellent quality, better than similar products in the market.

Soft navigation NTKO OFFICE

Product Description: NTKO OFFICE document control can directly edit MS OFFICE, WPS, Kingsoft spreadsheet, Yongzhong OFFICE and other documents in IE, Chrome, Firefox and other browsers and save them to the WEB server, to achieve unified management of documents and spreadsheets. And it has the necessary functions of mark retention, template red, TWO-DIMENSIONAL code, PDF and TIF reading and other office automation systems.

Comment on: Plug-in the advantage of simple, low cost, but the disadvantage is clear, have words said, if it takes a month to develop a plug-in, then adapted to at least one year, the product line is always a plugin issue to consider, the second is to show the effect, part of the plug-in products in the preview, not perfect reading documents, there will be run, jump page display problems. Considering plug-ins, it is necessary to evaluate the application scenario of the product in advance, such as the ability to control the user’s browser brand and Office version, and no mobile requirements, plug-ins are also a good choice.

Server Deployment Products

As a late product in the document preview market, the server deployment product is the priority of the current enterprise. It carries out document conversion and output through the built-in Office kernel. The advantages of the product are obvious. Documents can be read perfectly without relying on the local Office client. No longer have to worry about reading documents across platforms; There is no need to worry about the efficiency and running problems brought by transferring pictures and PDF; There is no need to worry about security issues caused by documents being left on the terminal! And its disadvantage, may be compared to the other two products, relatively high price.

Microsoft Office Online Server

Office Online Server offers browser-based versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. Office Files can be accessed through SharePoint Server, Exchange Server, shared folder and website. At present, most enterprise users use Microsoft Office products for document editing, but if they choose Microsoft Office Online, they belong to the same company, which is to show the effect and the best in the audience. The disadvantage is that the high cost of Microsoft Office Online and the rules that do not accept customization make many users complain.

jinshan

Kingsoft WPS online preview is a software service component provided by Kingsoft WPS for government and enterprise units. It can be used to connect and integrate multiple business systems at the same time, and assist business systems to realize online preview of office, PDF and image documents. At present, doc(X), XLS (x), PPT (x), PDF and other common formats can be converted to H5 format for preview. The preview process does not depend on the local Office. On the basis of PC preview, the converted H5 page can also be well compatible with mobile devices. It is specially optimized on mobile devices to support screen size and achieve high fidelity preview effect. Comment on: As the office of the leading enterprises in mainland China, jinshan products is also very can play, product performance and its strong technical strength, make every choice it very comfortable, but because the jinshan online preview products is kingsoft cloud group document of a module, the market is not sold separately, that is to say, in order to buy a jinshan online preview documents, Need to buy a complete set of kingsoft cloud group document, this let many clients, I use kingsoft from some online preview products there understand that they have a little more troublesome is that product deployment, because the document online preview just one module, so deployment need to deploy cloud document of a complete set of products, and integration is relatively trouble. And for the vast majority of customization is not considered, some large factories said another. And the service part is also uneven, there are good, there are ridicule is very bad, this is different.

wing

Document Conversion Service (DCS) is a kind of Service that provides the Conversion between different Document formats by analyzing the format of common office documents and realizing the reading of common Document formats. DCS can be directly deployed on Windows or Linux network operating systems, and work with Web servers and mail servers to provide Office document reading and batch conversion functions. DCS support reading and conversion of document formats is very rich, covering Microsoft Office 97~2016, PDF, UOF and OFD and other commonly used document formats, while according to user needs for specific formats of cooperation. Comments: forever in this company was founded in 2000, for the most part I believe friends are heard for the first time, I just listen to this company, to check the power of the company, to be reckoned with, one of only two two office manufacturer in China, in a lot of government military units have deep application, the predecessor is wuxi state-owned enterprises. The most famous customer of DCS products of Yongzhong should be QQ mailbox. Every Chinese has a QQ mailbox. The attachment preview in the mailbox is the solution of Yongzhong. The product uses their own Office kernel, which is compatible with Microsoft Kingsoft. In the document preview effect, speed is very good, and support deep customization, which is different from Microsoft Kingsoft, which also laid a deep foundation for them in this market. As far as we know, the mainstream email manufacturers are using their solutions, and the mainstream OA manufacturers have a deep cooperation with them. The preview module embedded in the latest 9.0 version of Panmicro uses Yongzhong. And the product price I also understand, compared with Microsoft and Kingsoft, that is an absolute advantage.

conclusion

The above list only some mainstream products, in fact, there are many products not written, limited by space, I will write these, in fact, the document online preview product development to today, each solution is more mature, if you can according to this article, choose a more suitable for your products.