How Carbone works

Document generation with Carbone is performed in two phases.

The first step, Template Engine is the heart of the system. It parses the template and inserts the data to generate reports. This part is open core, namely CarboneJS.

The second step, Document Converter converts the generated report to another file format (ex. DOCX to PDF). LibreOffice, Onlyoffice and Chromium are executed and managed by Carbone. It has many advantages for queue management, optimisation, security, monitoring, etc.

• LibreOffice is used to convert most documents
• Onlyoffice is LibreOffice's challenger for DOCX/XLSX/PPTX templates.
• Chromium is used to convert HTML to PDF
• Carbone ICE (Instant Converter Engine) converts DOCX to PDF within Carbone itself, without any external program. It is the fastest of the four, see its limitations

In addition to this engine, we provide Studio, a User Interface for simplifying the creation and management of templates. It also gives you some statistics.

All this processing is available with our turnkey solution or with your dedicated instances via a simple API.