Thirdparty software requirements
Third-party software requirements
Section titled “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.
| Software | Usage | Additional information | Required |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |