xinyu zhang Xinyu is a member of the web development, support, and marketing team at IDRsolutions.

Convert PDF to HTML/ SVG on Your Phone

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Last November, my coworkers and I attended Devfest Istanbul, where I found inspiration in the insightful talks and the incredible people I met. Many of my new friends in Istanbul were passionate about Flutter, insisting that it makes Android app development much easier compared to Kotlin.

 

Curious to see for myself, I decided to give Flutter a shot—and I have to say, it’s been a refreshing experience! Once I got comfortable with Dart (Flutter’s programming language), I wrote a support document on how to access BuildVu microservices using Dart.

 

To practice a bit more, I built a file converter app that leverages our product microservices. This app allows users to trial our products and convert files right from their phone.

Here’s how you can use it:

1. Go to our GitHub repo and download the apk in the release page.
2. With “PDF to HTML/ SVG” converter as an example, click on “Go”.

3. Fill in your trial token or follow the guide to get it

4. Select original file (and advanced options if needed) then convert

5. After the file is successfully converted, you can preview online, download zip or convert another file.

Preview:

Downloaded file:

This app is supported by BuildVu and FormVu. BuildVu provides PDF to HTML/ SVG conversion and FormVu provides fillable PDF form to HTML conversion (that is, your users can fill PDF forms on the website as the form in essence has turned into an HTML file). You can use the microservice api of  BuildVu and FormVu to build your own app.



xinyu zhang Xinyu is a member of the web development, support, and marketing team at IDRsolutions.