Supported formats
PDF | application/pdf | | |
| TIFF | image/tiff | | PDF |
| SDO | x-application/seid-sdo | | PDF (see below) |
| TXT | text/plain;charset=... | Can only be stored through the REST interface | |
Formats
PDF
All variants of PDF are supported. However, as archived documents are typically meant for long term preservation, the PDF/A subset is recommended.
TIFF
TIFF is a container format for images, and is commonly used in scanning. It supports a wide variance of internal representations. We aim to support conversion (real-time on retrieval) to PDF for all of them.
SDO
SDO refers to Signed Digital Object. We support the BankID SEID-SDO format generated by Nets E-Signing services. SDO is a container format, enclosing a document together with a series of electronic signatures of that document.
The internal document can be either a PDF, a text document or a BID-XML construct. The SDO format does not support storing the character set of text content. This will be treated as US-ASCII by E-Archive.
BID-XML
The BID-XML construct consists of two objects; an XML file and an XSL transformation. The XSLT can be used to transform the XML into an HTML document. When viewing this, E-Archive further transforms the HTML into a PDF. Support for BID-XML is not generic, but is made to support some specific use cases. If support for this format is required, a specific agreement should be made.
TXT and CSV
Both these are text formats, that are stored and retrieved without any conversion. When storing, a character set must be specified. The 3 preferred character sets are US-ASCII, ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8.
