I am looking for a web based way of showing users tiff, pdf, doc(x), and xls(x) files. This is being required from a business standpoint and I don't have a whole lot of weight/control into the decision being made. The web application will be used by both internal and external customers, not publically available though.
Pricing is not such a big deal right now, the active stakeholders know this is extremely valuable and important. So to a point, pricing does not matter.
I was hoping somebody else's google-fu was better than mine, or knows of a good solution/product that doesn't necessarily have good search engine ranking.
Little more info
I do believe all we will need is a way to view the images. We will not be performing any redaction or annotations. It would be nice to have a thumbnail control to facilitate flipping through many pages (upwards around 100), but this is not required. There will be other controls on the page, so I'm looking for a minimalistic viewer. Being able to customize the navigation buttons/controls would be an added bonus as well. Also this will be developed/deployed using ASP.NET MVC2 on an IIS7 x64 platform.
A silverlight/flash control/solution would also be acceptable.
Current Findings
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/939221/previewing-tif-documents-on-the-web-net-c - Only directed at TIF images
- http://www.accusoft.com/prizmviewerfeatures.htm - uses a browser plugin. This is not ideal, but a possibility.
- http://www.atalasoft.com/products/dotimage - Does not seem to support MSFT Office formats, no mention of MVC support.
- http://www.snowbound.com/viewer_inaction/viewerdemos.html - So far this one is coming out ahead, it supports many formats (pay for the formats you need/want). But again, no mention of MVC.
- Google Docs API - From what I can tell in order to use Google's conversion, you need to put the documents on their server. This will not work for us because of sensitive information the documents have.