About GroupDocs.Conversion for Java API

GroupDocs.Conversion for Java is an advanced file format conversion API for converting between popular image and document formats such as Microsoft Office, OpenDocument, PDF, HTML, email, CAD. and much more with just a few lines of code. The native API automatically detects the formats of the original documents and offers many options for customizing the converted documents. Along with the function of extracting information from a document, it also supports caching of the conversion results to the local disk by default. However, any type of cache storage can be supported by implementing the appropriate interfaces - Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Drive, Windows Azure, Reddis, or any others.

Convert your FODS files to JSON in Java. It only takes a couple of lines of Java code on any platform of your choice, such as Windows, Linux, macOS. You can try converting FODS to JSON for free and evaluate the quality of the conversion results. Along with simple file conversion scripts, you can try more sophisticated options for loading the FODS source file and storing the JSON output.

For example, for the source FODS file you may use the following load options:

automatic detection of the file format;
specify a password for protected files (if the file format supports it);
replace missing fonts to preserve the appearance of the document.

There are also advanced convert options for the JSON file:

convert a specific page of a document or a range of pages;
add a watermark to the converted JSON.

Once the conversion is complete, you can save the JSON file to your local file path or to any third party storage such as FTP, Amazon S3, Google Drive, Dropbox etc. Please note - to convert FODS to JSON, you do not need to install any additional software, such as MS Office, Open Office, Adobe Acrobat Reader etc.

Steps to convert FODS to JSON in Java

GroupDocs.Conversion for Java allows developers to easily convert FODS file to JSON with a few lines of code.

Create a new instance of the Converter class and upload the file FODS with the full path
Set ConvertOptions for document type to JSON
Call the convert() method and pass the document name (full path) and format (JSON) as a parameter

System Requirements

Basic conversion with GroupDocs.Conversion for Java API can be done with just a few lines of code. Our APIs are supported on all major platforms and operating systems. Before executing the code below, make sure you have the following prerequisites installed on your system.

Operating systems: Microsoft Windows, Linux, MacOS
Development environments: NetBeans, Intellij IDEA, Eclipse, etc.
Java runtime: J2SE 6.0 and above
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// Load source file FODS for conversion
Converter converter = new Converter("input.fods");
// Prepare conversion options for target format JSON
ConvertOptions convertOptions = new FileType().fromExtension("json").getConvertOptions();
// Convert to JSON format
converter.convert("output.json", convertOptions);