Aspose.Total Conversion

Pros: The most important factors for us in choosing the right solution were conversion accuracy and conversion speed.

Aspose was the best tool available in conversion speed and conversion accuracy in comparison to the competition.

Cons: The product is a bit pricey but as they have multiple licensing models we could find a program that suits our needs.

Overall: We needed an out of the box API to convert word files into PDF and add layovers like headers, footers, and watermark. We’ve assessed and tested multiple tools including iText, Open Office and Aspose PDF and analyzed the results we’re getting for our conversion use cases.

The most important factors for us in choosing the right solution were conversion accuracy and conversion speed.

The conversion speed is important because the conversion should be done in real-time while a user waits for the conversion results.

The conversion accuracy is important as the PDF extracted must be identical to the input word file and should be shared with official agencies.

Aspose was the best tool available in conversion speed and conversion accuracy in comparison to the competition.

We also needed a way to add security to the resulted PDF like prevent printing or extraction of text and this was done easily with Aspose.

We already use Aspose for almost 3 years and performing hundreds of conversions a month with great performance and great quality outputs.

We’re now assessing the ability to convert other file formats like Excel or PowerPoint to PDF using the same logic as we used for word files and Aspose total seems like the right solution for us.

We already know that it works perfectly with word files, we know the conversion speed and we already know how to use the API and built the web services that works with it so choosing Aspose is a no-brainer here.

Another great advantage in using aspose is the number of tutorials and help topics available online. We could find instructions or examples to almost any task we wanted to achieve and build our own solutions accordingly. There are also multiple annual product updates that add more capabilities and fix minor issues.

In addition, their support team is very responsive and provides quick responses to questions.