Document Conversion Service is a highly scalable product with the ability to process many documents in parallel to take advantage of multi-CPU and multi-core systems available today.

Supported Platforms

Only 64-bit operating systems are supported. A minimum of 4GB of memory (RAM) is recommend for best performance.

Microsoft® Windows Server 2022

Microsoft® Windows 11

Microsoft® Windows Server 2019

Microsoft® Windows Server 2016

Microsoft® Windows Server 2012 R2

Microsoft® Windows Server 2012

Microsoft® Windows Server 2008 R2

Microsoft® Windows 10 (up to version 1809)

Microsoft® Windows 8, 8.1

Microsoft® Windows 7

Required by Document Conversion Service:

 

An account with administrative privileges to use the Document Conversion Service account. This is set up during the installation process but can later be changed as needed through the service properties.

For concurrent (parallel) document processing, you are only limited by your license and the capabilities of the computer you are running on. The performance of Document Conversion Service is directly tied to the number of CPUs and cores available as well as the configuration settings used to control the amount of resources that can be used by the service.

To ensure the fidelity of your converted documents, some of the included converters use the application used to create your document in order to do the conversion. For these converters you will need to have installed the necessary third-party applications.
 
See What Files Can I Convert? for a complete list of the included converters and any required application and versions supported by each. The most common required applications are listed here:

oMicrosoft® Office (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, Visio, or Word) for Office documents

oAdobe® Reader for PDF files

oInternet Explorer for HTML files

oAutodesk Design Review for Autodesk DWF files.

oAutodesk DWG TrueView installed with Autodesk Design Review for DWG files.

ofor customers with licensed versions of Outside-In ActiveX Control, you are able to utilize this component as well to perform document conversions

oOptionally install the latest Ghostscript for improved Postscript and PDF file conversion

The following file types do not need a third-party application and are built-in:

oPostscript and PDF

oMicrosoft XPS (XML Paper Specification) files.

oImage formats including JPEG, TIFF, Windows Bitmap, ZSoft PCX and DCX, CServe Portable Network Graphics and Graphics Interchange Format

The following printer is occasionally required when creating vector Adobe PDF files.

oMicrosoft® XPS Document Writer