Technical FAQs for "PrizmDoc Cloud"

With PrizmDoc Viewer (Self-Hosted), you need to purchase specific licenses to include certain functionality such as OCR, MSO, etc. With this in mind, are all features of PrizmDoc Cloud included with transaction and subscription purchases?

All features that PrizmDoc Cloud has to offer are available with either transaction or subscription purchases.

I am a PrizmDoc Cloud customer and need to do content conversion with PrizmDoc. Do I have to do anything special to make it work?

Yes, in order to do content conversion as a PrizmDoc Cloud customer, there are a few things you need to do:

1. Most of the information regarding how to use our content conversion service can be found here, including the requests that can be made to it.
2. The URL the requests need to go to is api.accusoft.com, so you will need to make sure the requests for content conversion are going there.
3. You also need to add a header to the requests as follows: acs-api-key: yourapikey.

Doing these three things will allow you to use content conversion as a PrizmDoc Cloud customer.

I have EML and MSG files that contain attachments. I want to combine the original EML/MSG document with each of its attachments into a single PDF. How can I do this?

To do this you are going to need to create a viewing session for the EML or MSG file. Once you’ve created the viewing session you can get the viewingSessionIds of the attachments. Once you have the viewingSessionIds you can get the workFile ID associated with each viewing session. With the workfile IDs you can use the Content Conversion Service (CCS) to combine the email with its attachments into a single PDF.

Use the following API requests to do this:

Create a new viewing session with:

POST {server_base_url}/PCCIS/V1/ViewingSession 

This will give you a viewingSessionId which will be used in future requests.

The body for this request will be JSON:

    {
        "render": {
            "html5": {
                "alwaysUseRaster": false
            }
        }
    }

Upload the document with:

PUT {server_base_url}/PCCIS/V1/ViewingSession/u{viewingSessionId}/SourceFile?FileExtension={extension} 

The request body must be bytes of the source document. Make sure to include the FileExtension or PrizmDoc won’t be able to detect the file as an EML or MSG file.

Poll for and get the viewingSessionIds of the attachments with:

GET {server_base_url}/PCCIS/V1/ViewingSession/u{viewingSessionId}/Attachments

This will return the viewingSessionIds for each of the attachments.

Get the workfile ID for each of the viewing sessions with:

GET {server_base_url}/PCCIS/V1/ViewingSession/u{viewingSessionId}/FileId 

You’ll need to get a fileId for each attachment’s viewingSession and the email’s viewingSession.

With those workfile IDs, you can use the Content Conversion Service (CCS) to combine each of the workfiles with:

POST {server_base_url}v2/contentConverters

The body for this request will be JSON and need to include the workfileId for each of the attachments and the email itself. The body would look like this:

    {
        "input": {
            "sources": [
                { 
                    "fileId": "{EmailWorkFileId}"
                },
                { 
                    "fileId": "{Attachment1WorkFileId}"
                },
                { 
                    "fileId": "{Attachment2WorkFileId}"
                }
                
            ],
            "dest": {
                "format": "pdf"
            }
        }
    }

This will return a processId that you can poll using:

GET /v2/contentConverters/{processId}

Once the process is complete, the request will return a results array that will contain the fileId of the final document.

You can get the final document that contains all the attachments and original EML/MSG file combined into a single PDF with:

GET /PCCIS/V1/WorkFile/{fileId}

When viewing an Excel document with hidden content in the viewer, the content remains visible when otherwise expected to remain hidden. Is this intended behavior?

Short answer: Yes.

Currently, both PrizmDoc Cloud and PrizmDoc Viewer (Self-Hosted) are configured to render hidden content by default, so this is expected behavior.

For PrizmDoc Viewer (Self-Hosted) users, this rendering behavior is configurable using the central configuration file.

The file paths for the central configuration file are:

• Linux: /usr/share/prizm/prizm-services-config.yml
• Windows: C:\Prizm\prizm-services-config.yml

Simply add/modify the following parameter:

fileTypes.excel.renderHiddenContent: false

Setting the render option to false will hide content as expected, whereas true will render it.

We are interested to know how well the cloud offering
scales. For example, can we process thousands of transactions per second? Is there a limit to the number of transactions that we can use
concurrently?

The limitation will vary depending on the size of the documents and the type of work being performed on them.

PrizmDoc Cloud utilizes AWS servers to scale our services as demand increases, and we do currently rate limit total requests which should not exceed 100 requests within an eight second window. The window is rechecked every four seconds to determine if the rate limit is still in excess.

Where is your PrizmDoc Cloud environment hosted? Is your cloud solution running on AWS?

Our PrizmDoc Cloud environment is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) running in us-east-1 (Virginia).

When I view a document on PrizmDoc Cloud and it hits a cached document, is a transaction still consumed?

What defines a transaction on PrizmDoc Cloud?

A transaction is defined as: a document viewed, a document converted, a document OCR function performed, a form detected, or an image compressed.

PrizmDoc Cloud considers it a transaction anytime any of these actions are performed, regardless of how they are carried out.

We are in the process of converting multiple Microsoft Office documents to PDF files and noticed a few PowerPoint files are returning the following:

“errorCode”: “CouldNotConvert”.

What could be causing this issue?

This issue can occur specifically with PowerPoint files when using PrizmDoc’s MSO feature or PrizmDoc Cloud. When a document is marked as final, it becomes non-editable and the MS Office API does not allow the document to be edited and returns “errorCode”: “CouldNotConvert”.

Currently the only work around is to open the PowerPoint file in its native application and remove the Mark as Final flag and save the file.

At the time of writing, there exists a pending feature request for the ability to remove this flag automatically. The feature request can be seen here.

Can I use all of the features and configuration options in PrizmDoc Cloud-Hosted that I can in PrizmDoc Self-Hosted?

Currently, PrizmDoc Cloud does not allow for editing the server central configuration parameters, but the defaults have been set to allow for more complex documents that might otherwise fail in order to account for the lack of ability to modify these options.

Currently we are using PAS for viewing packages and it is pointed to our Accusoft Cloud subscription API key. PAS is installed locally and we store the viewing package artifacts in our S3 bucket. We are using 600 GB of storage on S3 for the viewing package artifacts we already have converted.

We would like to start using Accusoft’s Cloud PAS API to create viewing packages and no longer wish to host our own PAS and have the following questions:

1. Is there a way we can migrate our current artifacts from our S3 bucket to Accusoft’s S3 bucket?

2. Is there an additional charge for storing the artifacts at Accusoft?

3. Is there a way to point the Cloud PAS to our existing S3 bucket?

Q: Is there a way we can migrate our current artifacts from our S3 bucket to Accusoft’s S3 bucket?

A: We do not currently offer an API for directly importing your existing viewing packages. However, you can re-create your viewing packages in PrizmDoc Cloud using the original source document.

Q: Is there an additional charge for storing the artifacts at Accusoft?

A: At this time there is no additional charge. However, this is
subject to change.

Q: Is there a way to point the Cloud PAS to our existing S3 bucket?

A: There is currently no setting available to configure your PrizmDoc Cloud account to use an S3 bucket which you own. If you use PrizmDoc Cloud, the storage is managed by Accusoft. If you need to own and manage the storage yourself, you’ll want to use your own Self-Hosted PAS.

When specifying the Amazon AWS access keys or IAM Role associated to the S3 bucket, what are the minimum necessary rights that I need to have for licensing to function?

The security policy associated to the IAM Role or User who has access to the S3 bucket needs to contain specific S3 bucket rights below:

listObjects

• AWS S3 listObjects docs
• Requires s3:ListBucket

putObject

• AWS S3 putObject docs
• Requires s3:PutObject

deleteObjects

• AWS S3 deleteObjects docs
• Requires s3:DeleteObject

What is the absolute bare minimum I need to use PrizmDoc Cloud?

This will allow you to load a document via a URL using PrizmDoc Cloud. Just include your PrizmDoc Cloud API key in the POST request headers.

Please note: This is purely intended as a proof-of-concept. You should never include your API key in your client-side Javascript.

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html lang="en">
<head>
    <!-- Metadata -->
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
    <meta name="description" content="" />

    <!-- Title -->
    <title>AccuSample</title>

    <!-- Libraries -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/normalize/8.0.0/normalize.min.css">

    <!-- PrizmDoc CSS -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://raw.githack.com/Accusoft/hello-prizmdoc-viewer-with-nodejs-and-html/master/public/viewer-assets/css/viewercontrol.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://raw.githack.com/Accusoft/hello-prizmdoc-viewer-with-nodejs-and-html/master/public/viewer-assets/css/viewer.css">

    <!-- Inline Stylesheet -->
    <style></style>

</head>
<body>

    <!-- #viewer -->
    <div id="viewer" class="pccv pcc-full-screen"></div>

    <!-- Libraries -->
    <script src="https://raw.githack.com/Accusoft/hello-prizmdoc-viewer-with-nodejs-and-html/master/public/viewer-assets/js/jquery-3.4.1.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://raw.githack.com/Accusoft/hello-prizmdoc-viewer-with-nodejs-and-html/master/public/viewer-assets/js/jquery.hotkeys.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://raw.githack.com/Accusoft/hello-prizmdoc-viewer-with-nodejs-and-html/master/public/viewer-assets/js/underscore.min.js"></script>

    <!-- PrizmDoc JS -->
    <script src="https://raw.githack.com/Accusoft/hello-prizmdoc-viewer-with-nodejs-and-html/master/public/viewer-assets/js/viewercontrol.js"></script>
    <script src="https://raw.githack.com/Accusoft/hello-prizmdoc-viewer-with-nodejs-and-html/master/public/viewer-assets/js/viewer.js"></script>
    <script src="https://raw.githack.com/Accusoft/hello-prizmdoc-viewer-with-nodejs-and-html/master/public/viewer-assets/js/viewerCustomizations.js"></script>

    <!-- Inline Script -->
    <script>

        let viewingSessionId;
        let viewerControl;

        $(document).ready(function() {
            $.ajax({
                "type": "POST",
                "url": "https://api.accusoft.com/prizmdoc/ViewingSession",
                "headers": {
                    "acs-api-key": "4lTamQVZmrkqZhH8cZhdu7L0xyhUa3gorcaCFQpA_zmuowZs4zoF39V4IckpnVW_"
                },
                "data": JSON.stringify({
                    "source": {
                        "type": "url",
                        "url": "https://www.usability.gov/sites/default/files/creating-wireframes.pdf"
                    }
                })
            }).done(function(response) {
                PCCViewer.Ajax.setHeaders({
                    "acs-api-key": "4lTamQVZmrkqZhH8cZhdu7L0xyhUa3gorcaCFQpA_zmuowZs4zoF39V4IckpnVW_"
                });

                viewingSessionId = response["viewingSessionId"];

                // Initialize viewer
                viewerControl = $("#viewer").pccViewer({ 
                    "documentID": viewingSessionId,
                    "imageHandlerUrl": "https://api.accusoft.com/prizmdoc",
                    "language": viewerCustomizations.languages["en-US"],
                    "template": viewerCustomizations.template,
                    "icons": viewerCustomizations.icons,
                    "annotationsMode": "LayeredAnnotations"
                }).viewerControl;

                viewerControl.on("ViewerReady", function() {
                    console.log("Ready!");
                });
            });
        });

    </script>

</body>
</html>