GroupDocs VS Zoho
Business requirements keep on evolving with changes in the communication and collaboration culture of organizations worldwide. Not so long ago, employees used email attachments to collaborate on documents and get those reviewed from their colleagues and peers. Now, businesses have enterprise document management tools implemented for retrieval of information, records management, organizing as well as keeping track of online documents in an organization. Such a solution is designed to ensure centralized storage of documents so that it is easy to access data while keeping it secure at the same time. It provides advanced capabilities to the users such as availability of many dynamic Apps to perform various tasks on documents online.
Instant document viewing in the browser is an essential aspect of any content management solution. A number of cloud-based Viewer Apps are readily available in the market to view documents online. But the perfect solution is the one which allows you to view, share and collaborate on documents with its dynamic nature and makes viewing of files easy as well as fun. Two of the most widely used Document Viewer Apps in the world are provided by GroupDocs and Zoho which claim to provide the best capabilities to the users. Today, we will do a comparative analysis of both Document Viewer Apps and find out about the unique features of both.
A Comparsion
Supported File Formats
Diversity of the file formats supported by both of these modern online document management solutions is really commendable. GroupDocs offers compatibility to many types of word processing documents (DOC, DOCX, TXT, RTF, ODT), presentations (PPT, PPTX), spreadsheets (XLS, XLSX), portable files (PDF), and image files (JPG, BMP, GIF, TIFF). Other the other hand, Zoho is compatible to file formats such as DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, PDF, RTF, TXT, HTML etc. It doesn’t support image files to be viewed in the browser.
Rendering of Documents
To view a documents via GroupDocs Viewer App, all you need to do is upload the file on the Dashboard to view it in the browser. A robust rendering of the document will be performed and the resulting HTML5 file can be instantly read in the viewer. The whole process takes up only a few seconds and installation of any software or document conversion process is not required.
Zoho Viewer on the contrary, allows you to upload any of the supported document formats to view the document. Once you upload the file, a permalink to that document and you can use this URL to view the document in the browser.
Embedding Documents
GroupDocs Viewer lets you embed documents on your web application so that your website visitors can read those documents on your website. All you need to do to embed a document is copy and paste the code provided by GroupDocs Viewer into your website.
Since a URL is created to your documents while viewing files through Zoho Viewer, you can embed the documents in a blog or a website using the embed codes. The process is easy to perform and doesn’t take up much time.
Easy Access Tools
GroupDocs Viewer also has shortcuts to other GroupDocs Apps which let you move smoothly from tool to tool, without returning to the dashboard. You can access other GroupDocs Apps in the Suite straight from the Viewer App to convert, annotate or compare the uploaded documents.
Zoho allows you to open your documents in its other comparable applications to edit or export documents, spreadsheets as well as presentations. However, marking up the document while reading it from the viewer is not an option with Zoho.
Conclusion
With many features and capabilities, both GroupDocs and Zoho provide users with a comparable experience regarding viewing of documents in the browser. However, GroupDocs serves as a better choice with its complete Suite of document management Apps to fulfill all of your online document viewing needs.
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