The Document Conversion service transforms HTML, PDF, and Microsoft™ Word documents into normalized HTML, plain text, or sets of Answer units. The Answer units can be run through a utility to convert it to the Solr JSON file type needed to train the Retrieve and Rank service.

Give it a try! Click the button below to fork into IBM DevOps Services and deploy your own copy of this application on Bluemix.

1. Create a Bluemix Account

Sign up in Bluemix, or use an existing account. Watson Services in Beta are free to use.

2. Download and install the Cloud-foundry CLI tool

3. Edit the manifest.yml file and change the <application-name> to something unique.

applications:
- services:
  - document-conversion-service
  name: <application-name>
  path: .
  memory: 256M

The name you use will determinate your application url initially, e.g. <application-name>.mybluemix.net.

4. Connect to Bluemix in the command line tool

$ cf api https://api.ng.bluemix.net
$ cf login -u <your user ID>

5. Create the Document Conversion service in Bluemix

$ cf create-service document_conversion standard document-conversion-service

6. Push it live!

$ cf push

The application uses Node.js and npm so you will have to download and install them as part of the steps below.

1. Copy the credentials from your document-conversion-service service in Bluemix to app.js, you can see the credentials using:

   $ cf env <application-name>

   Example output:

   System-Provided:
   {
   "VCAP_SERVICES": {
     "document_conversion": [{
         "credentials": {
           "url": "<url>",
           "password": "<password>",
           "username": "<username>"
         },
       "label": "document_conversion",
       "name": "document-conversion-service",
       "plan": "standard"
    }]
   }
   }

   You need to copy username, password and url.

2. Install Node.js

3. Go to the project folder in a terminal and run: npm install

4. Start the application

5. node app.js

6. Go to http://localhost:3000

To troubleshoot your Bluemix app the main useful source of information are the logs, to see them, run:

$ cf logs <application-name> --recent

This sample code is licensed under Apache 2.0. Full license text is available in COPYING.

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