All supported documents and images can be converted to the following file formats:
- JPEG
- IOCA
- MO:DCA
- TIFF
- GIF
- BMP
The MST Java Applet Viewer provides a vast array of features and functions for viewing, manipulating, and annotating documents, as well as industry-specific options to meet the entire imaging requirements of an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system. The viewer supports a vast array of document and image formats including PDF, TIFF, MS Office, MO:DCA, IOCA, PTOCA, GIF, JPEG, and many more. The viewer not only has specifically designed ECM connectors for a number of ECMs but also utilizes CMIS for even greater usability.
The MST Applet Viewer delivers high-speed document and image viewing capabilities to your users, increasing productivity, and reducing downtime. Ultra-fast first page display technology greatly reduces rendering time which can be significant for large files.
The MST Applet Viewer document manipulation tools provide essential tools with using digital documents and images in order to better manage and handle them during the reviewing processes. It enables users to move pages within a document, remove unnecessary content from documents, merge documents and much more.
Users can easily add a variety of annotations and markups to all supported documents to effectively collaborate with colleagues and expedite documents through workflows.
Compare two different versions of the same document side by side to quickly review changes between the versions.
The MST Viewer delivers high-speed document and image viewing capabilities for users, increasing productivity and reducing downtime. Ultra-fast first page display technology greatly increases productivity which can be hindered for large files. View documents and images from any enterprise content management (ECM) system or the workstation. The MST Viewer provides the following document viewing features:
Document manipulation tools are essential with the use of digital documents and images. The MST Viewer’s document manipulation tools enable users to increase usability of documents, adjust pages within a document, remove unnecessary content from documents, and much more. The MST Viewer provides a vast number of document manipulation tools including:
The MST Viewer provides annotation tools that allow users to review, collaborate, and annotate documents and share with others, which reduces decision-making process, and increase collaboration among users. Users will be able to add comments, digital stamps, various shapes and much more to documents in conjunction with business workflows.
The MST Viewer can provide users with the ability to hide or remove sensitive and confidential information from documents and images. Redact details such as names, addresses, social security numbers (SSNs), date of birth (DOB), credit card details, bank account numbers, and much more easily from documents.
Using the OCR with the MST Viewer enable users to convert image-based documents with text into text-enabled documents such as PDF. Users will be able to:
Users are able to view, edit, and save metadata information associated with any document stored in your organization’s ECM. The metadata information is displayed in a structured manner to make it easier for users to understand.
Viewer enables users to print documents, provided they have the permission from the administrator, with a variety of options. These options include:
The MST Viewer enables users to convert documents and images on-the-fly tomore universal file formats for ease of use and portability. Documents and images can be converted into any number of file formats including PDF, TIFF, and many more.
Compare two different versions of documents and images side by side to look for changes between the two versions. It provides facility to compare two documents by splitting documents either horizontally or vertically.
Viewer includes a number of filters that enhances the document viewing experience for users. These filters include:
The user interface of the MST Viewer can be customized to meet your organization’s exact requirements. The graphical user interface can be configured at the admin level as well as through user’s preferences. The following are some of the functions that are customizable:
The exposed APIs will allow developers to integrate the viewer to various applications as well as programmatically control the viewer in numerous ways. Developers can use the exposed APIs to:
The MST Viewer is a universal viewer that displays all major types of images and documents with the highest fidelity. Supports viewing vast number of file formats, documents and images. Following are the most common file formats:
The MST Java Applet Viewer provides seamless integration with SharePoint 2010, 2013, and 2016. Offering fast viewing without the need to download any plugin or player software on the client’s workstation, and requiring no advanced configuration, the MST Java Applet Viewer is the single viewer you need for all of your organization’s content. Extend SharePoint’s interface by providing the fastest, most feature-rich, universally accessible content viewing platform, and most secure access to Microsoft Office files, PDFs, CAD, and more.
The MST Java Applet Viewer can be integrated with IBM CM8 eClient or IBM Content Navigator. Replacing the default IBM viewer with MST Java Applet Viewer to get a whole new set of features such as expanded annotations, image tools, page reordering, redaction capabilities, higher image fidelity, and more. The MST Java Applet Viewer is 100% backwards compatible with all existing document types and all existing annotations.
The MST Java Applet Viewer can be integrated with IBM FileNet P8 Work placeXT or IBM Content Navigator. User can view single or multiple documents in the viewer. Supports viewing of existing default P8 annotations created with the default P8 viewer. Edit and save annotations back to the default P8 annotation format. Hence, annotations created by default FileNet P8 viewer can be viewed by the viewer and vice-versa. Also provides integration with eForms and document search.
The MST Java Applet Viewer can be integrated with IBM FileNet P8 Work placeXT or IBM Content Navigator. User can view single or multiple documents in the viewer. Supports viewing of existing default P8 annotations created with the default P8 viewer. Edit and save annotations back to the default P8 annotation format. Hence, annotations created by default FileNet P8 viewer can be viewed by the viewer and vice-versa. Also provides integration with eForms and document search.
The MST Java Applet Viewer can be integrated with EMC/OpenText Documentum Webtop to provide users with a powerful, browser-based document viewer to view, annotate, and manipulate hundreds of different document formats. Extend Documentum Webtop’s by providing the fastest, most feature-rich, universally accessible content viewing platform, and most secure access to Microsoft Office files, PDFs, CAD, and more.
The following is the technical information for the MST Java Applet Viewer. If you require further assistance with topics, please feel free to contact us.
All supported documents and images can be converted to the following file formats:
Compression types that are supported for encoding while converting:
MST Java Applet Viewer is a client-server application. It runs on all modern browsers (IE6 or higher, Chrome, Firefox, Safari etc.). The MST Server runs virtually on any Java supported application server, such as IBM WebSphere, Apache Tomcat, and others. The MST Server can be deployed either on Windows Server or Linux-based servers.
Following functions are performed by the viewer on the client browser without sending calls to MST Server module:
Following are the viewer functions that send calls back to MST Server module for processing:
Provides zoom in/out, custom zoom or rubber band zoom tools. Viewer zooms image or document preserving the quality of text and images even at higher or lower zoom values. It applies image filters such as Bilinear or Bi-Cubic Interpolation for images and zoom the text objects by modifying the corresponding font information to keep the text quality intact.
Rotate pages of a document or image and save them back without modifying their original properties (such as text searchable PDF etc...).
Automatically crops the unwanted white or black background from the image
Automatically straightens the scanned images.
Removes noise and enhances the output quality of bi-level fax images, and much more...
Several type of confidential information comes in the form of text patterns such as Social Security Number (SSN), credit card number,Date of birth(DOB), passport number, age, gender, race, etc. Viewer provides a text pattern search capability that allows fast and easy identification of predefined text patterns in PDF files. Provides numerous powerful predefined text search pattern options, including US phone number, social security number, DOB, credit card number, and many more, to automatically find and highlight text matching searches. The user then redact the searched text patters at once
Viewer retrieves the metadata associated with the document from the ECM and provides editing of the information based on the type of metadata field. Such as for a Date & Time field type a date and time picker is displayed and for a multiple choice field a multiple choice drop down is displayed. Following field types are editable: Date & Time, Single Line Text, Multiple Line Text, Single Choice, Multiple Choice, Number, Currency.
Provide Mask annotation for manually redacting an area of document or image. MST Web Viewer Java provides programmatic access to its functions using activeX API's which can be used to drive the viewer functions programmatically from virtually any other application windows application
Provide seamless integration with SharePoint 2007 through 2013. Integrating SharePoint with enhanced features of the viewer, users have access to best of the both products.
Allow integration with IBM CM8 eClient. Replace the default eClient Viewer with MST Java Applet Viewer to get a whole new set of features (such as enhance image quality for PDF documents, new set of annotation, image tools, page re-ordering, redaction capabilities etc...) on top of all the existing features present in the default IBM Windows Client viewer.
Allow integration with IBM FileNet P8 Workplace or WorkplaceXT. User can view single or multiple documents in the viewer from Workplace or WorkplaceXT. Supports viewing of existing default P8 annotations created with the default P8 viewer. Edit and save annotations back to the default P8 annotation format. Hence, annotations created by default FileNet P8 viewer can be viewed by the viewer and vice-versa. Also provides integration with eForms and searching of documents from CE.
Provide plugins for IBM Content Navigator, to setup selected MIME types to be viewed with MST Java Applet Viewer from CM8 or FileNet P8 repositories. Can be configured with SSO installation of Content Navigator.
Summary:
Open/View the document.
Parameters:
filePath: Location of the file that you want to view/open.
Sample:
voidopenDocument (”C:\\test.pdf”);
Summary:
View/hide the thumbnail window.
Parameters:
flag:
flag: It can have two values:
0 – Will hide the thumbnail window.
1 – Will show the thumbnail window.
Sample:
void thumbnail (0);
Summary:
View/hide the tree view window.
Parameters:
flag:
flag: It can have two values:
0 – Will hide the tree view window.
1 – Will show the tree view window.
Sample:
voidtree (0);
Summary:
Save the currently viewing file. Once the file is saved, callback API will call SaveCallback(DestFilePath) method prompting the location where you want to save the file.
Summary:
Save all the files opened in different tabs. Once the file is saved, callback API will call SaveAllCallback(DestFilePath) method prompting the location where you want to save the file.
Summary:
Close the currently opened document.
Sample:
voidcloseDocument ();
Summary:
Closes all opened documents.
Sample:
voidcloseAllDocuments ();
Summary:
Resize the document to fit entirely in the height of the window.
Sample:
voidfitToHeight ();
Summary:
Resize the document to fit entirely in the width of the window.
Sample:
voidfitToWidth ();
Summary:
Increase the magnification percentage of the page.
Sample:
voidzoomIn ();
Summary:
Decrease the magnification percentage of the page.
Sample:
voidzoomOut ();
Summary:
Used to increase the specific portion of the page. When this function is called, the cursor change into magnify cursor. Upon clicking, a dotted rectangle will appear. Drag on the page to view the specific portion of the page.
Sample:
void magnify ();
Summary:
Rotate the page in different direction as specified in the parameter.
Parameters:
mode: : It can have two values:
0 – Rotate the page in clockwise direction
1 – Rotate the page in an anti-clockwise direction
Sample:
void rotate (1);
Summary:
Print the selected document.
Sample:
voidprintDoc ();
Summary:
Scan documents through scanner device attached through the system and view it in the viewer. Once scanning is done, it will call ScanCompleteCallback(scannedFiles); method. The list of files created after scanning will be passed as an array of strings containing the absolute path to the scanned files.
Summary:
Load cursor for drawing annotation on the viewer. When user drags, it will draw selected annotation on the viewing document.
Parameters:
:
annotationType: Annotation that you want to draw on a page and can have values:
0 - Normal cursor
1 - Line
2 - Rectangle
3 - Circle
4 - Arrow
5 - Highlighter
6 - Pen
7 - Text
8 - Stamp
9 - Sticky Note
10 - Redaction
11 - Eraser
Sample:
voidprintDoc ();
Summary:
Move between different pages of the document.
Parameters:
:: It can have values:
navigationCode: 1 – First Page
2 - Last Page
3 – Next Page
4 – Previous Page
Summary:
Search for a piece of information in PDF file.
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