About Aspose.Words and SharePoint

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Product Purpose
Aspose.Words for SharePoint Easily add user interface to a SharePoint site for converting documents from one format to another (including to PDF) and joining documents together. Provides limited API for these tasks. Mostly a product for end-users.
Aspose.Words for .NET A very powerful .NET class library with a rich API for converting, programming and rendering documents in different formats. Use if you need to code things and need the API.
This section discusses possible scenarios for using Aspose.Words for .NET in a Microsoft SharePoint environment.

SharePoint is often used to automate business processes that require storing or producing documents, such as invoices, contracts, plans or agendas. These tasks often require writing code to work with documents.

Aspose.Words for .NET is a class library that can be used on a server for generating, converting and processing documents in a variety of formats. It makes a perfect sense to use Aspose.Words for .NET to solve document programming tasks when you develop a solution for SharePoint.

Here are just some ideas how you can use Aspose.Words for .NET in SharePoint:

  • Load a DOC contract template and insert data from a data source into merge fields or bookmarks inside the document. Then save the document to a stream, file or the SharePoint storage.
  • Convert a DOCX document into PDF.
  • Load a DOC and ODT documents, combine them and store in another format.
  • Load a document and render its pages as thumbnails for preview in a browser.

You can use all of the Aspose.Words for .NET features from SharePoint. Aspose.Words for .NET does not depend on SharePoint.