Case Study from our customer Spitfire Project Management System By Stan York, V.P. Product Development
Spitfire Project Management System
Aspose.Words Aspose.Pdf and Aspose.Pdf.Kit Implementation Case Study
By Stan York, V.P. Product Development, Spitfire
Product Background
Spitfire has designed and developed a comprehensive Project Management System for the Architectural, Engineering, and Construction industry (AEC). Project Management in this industry encompasses the distribution of large numbers of documents related to a project with strictly enforced audit trails. Conversion of Word documents into read-only PDF format is an important part of maintaining these strong audit trails.
Requirements Scenario
As a .NET Web Server based application, Spitfire primarily required ASP.NET server compatible components to reliably convert Word documents into PDF format with accurate retention of original format, with no user interface required.
Additional requirements included the ability to work with images in existing PDF files and bookmarks in existing Word documents.
Solution Implementation
After evaluating various solutions, Spitfire decided to deploy Aspose.Words and Aspose.Pdf as an embedded component in its application. After testing, we found that Aspose fully met our functional requirements, and was very easily deployed within our application.
We have also been able to make use of Aspose.Pdf.Kit to detect PDF files created by network scanners and perform OCR on the embedded images.
Benefits
The Aspose .NET components are efficient, managed code, which provide structured exception handling. The license file is deployed as an embedded resource within one of our assemblies—which helps keep deployment straightforward.
The examples that came with the product illustrated everything we needed to accomplish our immediate goals.
Since we deploy our product to third parties, the availability of a Royalty-free distribution license (Developer OEM Subscription) is a significant benefit. Additionally, the fact that the tools do not require any external software or licenses from native Adobe/PDF or Microsoft/Office applications also greatly simplifies installation and support.
Conclusions
We had the Aspose components working within our application within a few hours of downloading them. We purchased Aspose Total which has additional components that we expect to be able to take advantage of in the future (barcode, spell, etc). Aspose has been quick to respond to any questions or issues. We are very satisfied with the product suite and would highly recommend them.