Preview

The document preview service is a utility API that can render most document types as an image or PDF. This can be very helpful if you want to display a preview of a file in a frontend, or for other tasks that require one of these formats.

For both rendered formats there is a concept of a page. The actual meaning of a page depends on the source document. E.g. an image will always have exactly one page, while a spreadsheet will typically have one page representing each individual sheet.

The document preview service can only generate preview for document sizes that do not exceed 150 MiB. Trying to preview a larger document will give an error.

File type support

Previews can be created for the following types of files:

  • PDF files
  • Spreadsheets, documents and presentations from the Microsoft and Libre Office office suites
  • Images