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Third-party software requirements

OpenKM takes advantage of using third-party software for some features. Some of this software needs to be installed on the server, others are optional.

 

SoftwareUsageAdditional informationRequired

Openoffice or Libreoffice
  • Converts documents to pdf.
  • Needed for preview feature.
  

Yes

Imagemagick
  • Transforms images.
  • Generates thumbnails.
  • Needed for preview feature.

Usually comes by default installed in Linux OS.

In Windows in most cases it is not necessary to install it, because it comes embedded by default with OpenKM bundle installation.

Yes

SWFTools
  • Converts pdf document to swf.
  • Needed for preview feature.
 On most cases it is not necessary to install it, because it comes embedded by default with OpenKM bundle installation. Yes

GhostScript
  • Interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF.
  • Needed by Imagemagick.

Usually comes by default installed on Linux OS.

Optional

Pdftohtml
  • Converts pdf document to html.
  • Needed for preview feature.
  

Optional

Tesseract or cuneiform

  • OCR engine.
  • Used for the text extraction feature.

Required when application must processes images to extract text (OCR).

Optional

Ffmpeg
  • Converts and streams audio and video
  

Optional

Clamav or equivalent
  • Antivirus

 Required when antivirus feature is enabled.

Optional