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I'm looking for APIs to bring online document editing features for a web app - Any suggestions? The criteria of selection depends on the following factors

  • Support for editing for common document formats (doc, docx)
  • Support for viewing common document and presentation formats (doc, docx, pdf, ppt, pptx)
  • The API should be easily accessible from ASP.NET environment
  • We are not looking for data hosting - The data/documents will be kept in the local repository. The API/Related framework should have some functionality to load the documents from a store, provide a UI to the user to edit them, and save them back to the store
  • The editor/view component should be able to keep track of user annotations on a specific part of document etc

One option I'm evaluating is Zoho Remote API - http://apihelp.wiki.zoho.com/Zoho-API-Program---Overview.html

What I Would like to know

  • Any similar APIs (Suggestions, links etc)
  • Any experience you have (issues, problems) with Zoho API in ASP.NET
  • Normal challenges in integrating document editing/viewing in web apps

Thanks in advance.

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Have you considered Google Docs?

Keith
Do they have an API so that I can embed those features?
amazedsaint
http://code.google.com/apis/documents/
Keith
Not sure if this will allow you to "embed" the editing features within your web application, however I'm sure you can find a nice way to integrate.
Keith