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How to Convert Files with GroupDocs PHP SDK

This article explains the basics of using PHP SDK classes and methods. In this article I’ll use the Comparison API and show how to compare two documents from a GroupDocs account. Find information about others methods in the Swagger explorer.

Requirements

Initial Installations

  1. Learn how to install the Fatfree framework from
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Manage Your Documents Efficiently with GroupDocs’ Document Management Apps Suite

It’s difficult to find different document management solutions in one place for your diverse needs. You might spend your dime for separate stand-alone apps to fulfill your requirements. On the contrary, we, in GroupDocs, offer different document management apps as a suite to satisfy all your needs. GroupDocs offer six powerful apps to efficiently manage your documents. Since you get all these apps as a pack, you can easily manipulate your documents as required. The scenarios differ with customer requirements.… Continue Reading
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How to Use GroupDocs PHP SDK with Composer or a Built-in Autoloader

GroupDocs supports all major platforms, such as .NET, PHP, Java, Python, etc. So with GropDocs’ SDKs you can easily create your own application to store, view, sign (and use a lot of other great features on) your documents online, using Windows or Linux with your favorite language. Today, I’ll talk about GroupDocs PHP SDK and how to get started with it. Sometimes, developers ask us how to get our PHP SDK, how to use it with Composer, or how to… Continue Reading
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Comparison API sample Implementation with PHP SDK

This article explains the basics of using PHP SDK classes and methods. In this article I’ll use the Comparison API and show how to compare two documents from a GroupDocs account. Find information about others methods in the Swagger explorer.

Requirements

Initial Installations

  1. Learn how to install the Fatfree framework from
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Integration of GroupDocs’ Document Management Solutions with Google Cloud Storage

Good news to all! Google Cloud is now integrated with GroupDocs’ document management solutions. With this integration, you can now configure Google Cloud as your default storage provider for GroupDocs. You can set this up from within your GroupDocs account area. Flexibility in storage is vital when looking for a powerful document management solution. Most importantly, GroupDocs gives you power to choose your storage provider, which makes our solution flexible and user friendly.

Advantages

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Working with Groupdocs Signature API from Ruby

Today we will find out how to use GroupDocs’ Ruby SDK. We will create a GroupDocs Signature envelope sample with the Sinatra framework. GroupDocs Signature envelopes are used to prepare documents for digital signature and managing the signature process.

Setting Up

First, create the application folders structure:
  • your_app/public – for CSS files.
  • your_app/samples – for sample files.
  • your_app/views – for view files, we will use Haml for these.
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GroupDocs Apps Suite: a One-Stop-Shop for All Your Online Document Management Needs

Good news for the document management world! You now have all required online document management apps available under one roof. I’m talking about GroupDocs: a one-stop-shop for all your document management needs. The history of modern document management systems began with development of a set of computer apps, which were used to store and monitor electronic documents. With the advancement of technology, new branches were formed in the system. Now, online document management is not just storing or monitoring your… Continue Reading
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Developing FireFox Add-ons with the Add-on Builder and SDK

This article explains the basics of creating an add-on for FireFox using the FireFox Add-on Builder and Add-on SDK. Read more about them on the Mozilla website. As an example, I’ll use the GroupDocs add-on. (You can download the source code from Github.) It’s an advanced extension so I’ll focus on the basics and highlight a couple of interesting aspects communication between scripts. I’ll mainly look at the add-on folders data and lib in the /resources/groupdocsviewer/ folder.

Creating

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How to Use Swagger UI to Test GroupDocs REST API

The GroupDocs APIs are designed to be REST compliant so that they are familiar and easy to use. This post looks at how to use Swagger to test the GroupDocs APIs. Before showing you how to run a test, it explains Swagger and REST, and why we use them.

Why we use Swagger and REST

Swagger is a specification and a framework for building interactive API documentation and sandboxes, and to generate the code of an API client. Swagger (… Continue Reading
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Integration for Zapier – How to Create a Custom Trigger

Zapier allows seamless integration with dozens of APIs. In this post I’ll explain how to create an integration with the GroupDocs Storage API. Put simply the process of integration with Zapier is Read -> Process -> Write. Read-Process-Write image The left side of the integration is called a trigger and the right side is an action. The central process simply converts your API response to a format suitable for the write action. We are going to create a trigger for new files.… Continue Reading
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