Installation overview - Alfresco Document Transformation Engine - 2.4 - 2.4 - Ready - Alfresco - external - Alfresco/Alfresco-Document-Transformation-Engine/2.4/Alfresco-Document-Transformation-Engine/Install/Installation-overview - 2025-10-21 - The standalone Document Transformation Engine runs on Microsoft Windows and provides file transformations.

Alfresco Document Transformation Engine

Platform
Alfresco
Product
Alfresco Document Transformation Engine
Release
2.4
License
ft:locale
en-US

The standalone Document Transformation Engine runs on Microsoft Windows and provides file transformations.

Prerequisites

There are a number of important notes to consider when installing the Document Transformation Engine in addition to the Supported Platforms.

  • The Document Transformation Engine requires an installation of Alfresco Transform Service.
  • The standalone Document Transformation Engine requires the software components to be installed and available on the same machine.
  • Only install the English versions of Microsoft Windows Server, and Microsoft Office because other languages cause encoding issues resulting in unpredictable behavior.
  • Microsoft Office (32-bit and 64-bit).
  • To enable the Document Transformation Engine to work with non-English documents, you must install the desired Microsoft Office language pack of the language you want to work with.
  • The Document Transformation Engine does not work with Windows non-English regional settings.
  • Make sure that the Windows print spooler service is running.