Feature Comparison Strictly Confidential - Dec 2009

Features Details Snowbound Informative Graphics Adeptol

www.snowbound.com www.informativegraphics.com www.adeptol.com

www.virtualviewer.com www.bravaviewer.com www.ajaxdocumentviewer.com

Product Compared AJAX Viewer Brava Viewer AJAX Document Viewer

Server Based Viewer Is it a client side or server side Server Side Server Side Server Side
or combination of both
Requires ActiveX/Plug- Does it require any plug-in or java No plug-in/applet is required for Yes (Required Active X Download) No plug-in or activex download is required
in/Applet applet or active x to be downloaded AJAX Viewer. Other viewer versions
on client side require downloads
Server Platforms/ OS Which OS can it run on? Important Can run on any OS Windows only. Could not find clear Can run on any OS
Supported being Windows, Linux, HP UX, information on this
Solaris etc
Integrate with any Which programming language can it Yes Yes Yes
programming language be integrated with

Browser Support Which browsers viewer run on client Any browser Requires Active X download, so Any browser. States 99% browser
side? presumably only IE compatibility
Supported Languages Out Number of languages supported out Support for only TIFF, PNG, JPEG More than 300 languages supported out of
Of Box of box and DICOM. Customers can box - sun office, pdf, images, tiff, dicom,
upgrade to office formats but require sun office, open office etc.
additional Aspose purchase Support coming for audio/video files also

Save document to other Save the document to other formats None Save to PDF, TIFF, DWF Or Secure Save to PDF
formats like PDF, Word, Image etc CSF

Convversion Technology What is the internal conversion Virtual Print Queue based Converts everything to an image and Multi threaded Java engine for faster
technology and can it support technology. Converts document one loads in active x. conversion rates and multiple
millions of requests at a time. Very slow under high load simulataneous request serving.

Conversion to images or Does it convert each document page Converts each page to a low Converts each page to a low Converts each page into a vector, swf and
xml or vector graphics to image or other format. Image resolution image resolution image xml
conversion would limit text search,
text highlighting etc
Image and text resolution How good is resolution on zooming a Resolution becomes very poor on Great resolution. No distortion. Text Very very high resolution. A 1000% zoom
document to 1000% zoom could become unreadable at times produced no distortion

Search within document Is document in viewer searchable. No each page is an image No each page is an image Fully searchable with text recommendations
How fast does search work? through a dropdown. They call it advanced
search
Text search speed in How fast can you search for text in No search available Basic Search. Tool 10 seconds to Great extended search. Searched for a
document document find word the with 15 occurrences in word "the" in less than a microsecond in
a 5 page document 500 pages document. What really amazed
was search of single letter word "a" with
more than 25000 occurrences in a micro
second and all occurrences were
highlighted.
Select text in document Can text in document be highlighted No each page is an image No each page is an image Full capability to highlight and select text
(copy/paste) for copy paste to a text pad

Thumbnails in viewer Does the viewer display thumbnail Yes Yes Yes
images of the pages
Thumbnail images of pages Can png or jpeg or gif thumbnail of No mention on website. Should be Yes Yes
various document pages be possible
generated
Full Screen View Does viewer offer full screen view No No Yes

Document Size Limit What is the document size limit that No limit No limit No limit
can be loaded in viewer
Full document page Can you scroll through all pages in No each page loads as an image No each page loads as an image Full document page scroll.
scrolling document or do you have to click
Next/Prev buttons to navigate

Watermarking Can you add watermarks on each Yes Yes (Required Active X Download) Yes
page of the document.
Java Script Events to Can you send AJAX JS events to No No Yes
Viewer viewer. This can be used for
controlling viewer from within another
application
Java Script Events from Does viewer sends out events. In No No Yes
Viewer context to above feature
Viewer Brand Can you customize the viewer look No No Yes. Full viewer customizations allowed
Customization and feel and add your own logo,
colors etc
Internationalization Does it support international No No Yes
Support languages like Chinese, Arabic, Hindi
etc
Localization Can viewer be localized to languages No No Yes
other than English
API Support Does the product provide integration Yes Yes Yes
APIs?
Rights Management for Can you switch off printing, No No Yes. Full rights management. Dynamically
documents document saving etc for read only turn on print/download permissions on
users. This is a very important documents or even specific pages in
features if you are building a DMS documents
Document Caching on Can documents be cached on server No mention No mention Full document caching if needed
Server side for faster load times in future

Server Side Document Can you control the server side None None A document caching service takes case of
Caching Control document caching? this. You can assign your own caching rules
and create jobs within it also

Document downloaded in When a client views the document in Yes, swf was available in the client Yes, file was in client temp location No. Document is streamed directly from
client side viewer, is the document downloaded temp location server. Very secure
in client local temp cache. This can
be a big security risk if viewer leaves
a copy of file being viewed on client
temp folders

HTTPS/ Encryption Does the viewer support SSL Yes Yes Yes
Support encryption
Document Load Speed Test How fast a 10MB file loads Could not test. No doc support Took 45 seconds Took 5 seconds
- doc
Document Load Speed Test How fast a 5 MB Tiff loads Took 3 minutes for just page 1 Took 1.2 minutes Took 18 seconds for whole document
- tiff