Product: Apryse Windows SDK
Product Version: 11.4.0
I preparing to remove/uninstall Office from my servers.
For viewing doc, docx, xls, xlsx,…, if I convert them to XOD first, do I still need Office?
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Hello, I’m AiRon, an automated tech support bot 
While you wait for one of our customer support representatives, I can help you with your question.
When converting documents such as DOC, DOCX, XLS, and XLSX to XOD using Apryse’s Windows SDK, you do not need to have Microsoft Office installed on your server. Apryse’s SDK can handle these conversions directly without relying on Microsoft Office. This means you can safely remove or uninstall Office from your servers and still perform these conversions for viewing purposes.
Some things you can try:
- Ensure that your server environment meets the prerequisites for running Apryse’s SDK without Office.
- Use Apryse’s conversion methods to convert your documents to XOD format for viewing.
- Test the conversion process to ensure that the output meets your requirements and does not require Office.
Here are some resources that might help you:
- Supported File Types for Conversion - This page provides information on the file types that can be converted without Office.
- Convert to PDF with Virtual Printer - Learn about converting various file formats, which is relevant when considering removal of Office.
- Python 3.x PDF Library Integration - For those using Python, this guide helps integrate Apryse SDK without Office dependencies.
- Supported File Types for Web Conversion - Understand the capabilities of Apryse in handling conversions for web viewing.
Hopefully, this helps you solve your problem while you wait for a human to get back to you.
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Hi, my name is Christopher, and I am a Support Engineer with the Apryse toolkit. As was indicated by the AiRon tech bot, Microsoft Office does not need to be installed for you to work with converting or viewing XOD files.
I would make sure you do have the ability to view them with another viewer on your machine prior to removing Office from your machine.
I would also recommend testing the ability to view them after removing Office from your first server in case there is an issue for some reason in the way things are setup. This would prevent you from eliminating Office from all machines prior to finding such a problem.
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Hi Christopher,
After removing Office, I got the error below when trying to convert DOCX to XOD.
It looks like the PDFNet still uses Word for XOD converting. Do you have any suggestion?
---> pdftron.Common.PDFNetException: Exception:
Message: An error occurred while converting the file.
Detailed error:
Failed to find the CLSID for "Word.Application".
HRESULT: Invalid class string
File: "Word.cpp":138
Log:
Start check system account.
Session ID is: 0.
Done checking system account.
Start checking registry.
Registry check done.
Creating a Word application instance.
Conditional expression: false
Version : 10.9.0-274970b356
Platform : .Net Framework
Architecture : AMD64
Filename : Convert.cpp
Function : trn::PDF::Convert::ToPdf
Linenumber : 2376
at pdftron.PDF.Convert.ToXod(String in_filename, String out_filename, XODOutputOptions options)
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Hi,
It appears that our internal (dependency free) office converter is not currently licensed by your company, this is why it is not switching automatically to our internal converter, and instead you get this exception.
I see you created an internal ticket, so we will continue your account specific, licensing needs, in that private conversation.
In the meantime, you can switch to a demo/trial key (which you can get at the link below) and that will allow you to use our internal converter (with watermarking) while we work out your licensing needs in the private ticket.
To get your Apryse trial key please go here.
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