Document Conversion Services
Document Conversion Services (DCS) are used when you work with HCL Web Content Manager authoring, previewing, and search.
Documents that are produced by many standard applications (such as word processors or spreadsheet editors) can be viewed as HTML pages with Document Conversion Services. Documents that are received as attachments to email can be viewed in the browser even if the application that created the document is not installed. Document Conversion Services also allows documents to be searched by content. When using Oracle Stellent DCS, document pages can also be converted into an image format such as GIF, BMP, JPG, or PNG.
- Supported operating systems for document conversion services
Some operating systems support running the DCS locally while others do not. The following table lists the operating systems and versions that support running the document conversion services. On operating systems that do not support running the DCS locally, document conversion must be done on a remote IBM WebSphere Application Server that supports document conversion services. - Configure Document Conversion Services
Learn how to configure the Document Conversion Services in HCL Portal. A knowledge of these prerequisites steps can assist you in preventing, identifying, and correcting problems that are related to Document Conversion Services. - Setting up file type definitions to enable Document Conversion Services
Set up file definition types to ensure that document conversions works for the Microsoft Office and OpenOffice file types. - Creating a backup of DCS files
Instructions to back up Document Conversion Services (DCS) files, prior to the replacement of the DCS component that is provided by HCL in August 20, 2022, are provided for customers who are interested to continue to use the Oracle supplied DCS. - Using Document Conversion Services with Stellent
For Linux, when using Stellent version 8.1.0 and later, the X-server dependency has been removed. - Disable DCS
Beginning with Digital Experience 95 CF205 release, Oracle DCS service for Digital Experience Document Conversion Service is removed and will be replaced with an HCL supported DCS services. - Configuring a remote Document Conversion Service
To balance processing power, you can run document conversion services on a remote IBM WebSphere Application Server that supports document conversion services. Enabling the delegation of document conversion services to a remote server requires steps on both HCL Digital Experience and the remote server. - Files conversion supported by DCS
View a list of file types that are supported by DCS for conversion.