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A digital library and e-book, audiobook and comic book subscription service.

Scribd is a digital library and ebook service that provides an API for publishing documents to and retrieving documents from its online collections.

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Convert pdf, doc, ppt to html5

I've googled (without any luck) for open source software that can convert doc, ppt, and pdf to HTML5. (Exactly what Scribd does) Are there open source equivalents to the type of conversion Scribd does? If anyone knows of a paid service, that would…
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How to write Big files into Blobstore using experimental API?

I have dilemma.. I'm uploading files both in scribd store and blobstore using tipfy as framework. I have webform with action is not created by blobstore.create_upload_url (i'm just using url_for('myhandler')). I did it because if i'm using blobstore…
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Open Source Web PDF Viewer?

Is their any Open Source Web PDF Viewer? Which has good api through which I can modify the looks of the viewer? I had tried the Scribd, Google Docs, FlexPaper , and this also. But it is not giving me, as I want. Then i had downloaded the shadowbox…
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How to display PDF on PHP website without Flash/Adobe

I am not satisfied with the browsers internal behaviour of displaying PDFs. I would like to provide my users with an easy yet stylish PDF viewing experience on my sites. Something like Scribd, but managable and unter full security and control on my…
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What technology is used behind A.nnotate.com?

I would like to know how do services like A.nnotate.com, Scribd, Google Docs render pdf,.doc, or any other document into HTML and how does the annotation system work?
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Scribd API search showing irrelevant answers

When I use the search functionality on the scribd docs API to search for a function, like http://api.scribd.com/api?method=docs.search&api_key=API_KEY&query=hello+world It returns irrelevant results, and ones different to the search functionality of…
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Document -> Flash viewer, not hosted

I've got a content management solution where we present scanned images (TIFF), PDFs, word docs for viewing. While we can simply embed a PDF, sometimes depending on user preferences it's a bit fiddly and sometimes not user-intuitive. I'd like a…
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How to embed a scribd viewer into GitHub markdown?

I would like to embed a scribd document viewer into a GitHub README.md, but the snippet generated by scribd sharing directly into markdown doesn't render on either on iframe or script html tags: