Crocodoc (YC W10) Launches Preview of Revamped HTML5 Document Converter

Deeply impressed by the product, but I hate it when pricing is hidden behind "contact our sales team". That usually equals "let's first see how deep your pockets are".<p>Also a tactic often used by companies that keep you paying the original rates while their actual pricing for new clients have dropped considerably.

I have to say I'm pretty blown away. I'm more or less the sole software engineer for a group of small local newspapers, and have been on the lookout for a system to replace our current flash-based e-edition reader.<p>Crocodoc is the first conversion service I've seen that actually properly renders our PDFs.<p>Sample: <a href="https://preview.crocodoc.com/view/183cbebf-8d01-4f5f-bb3a-5e26dc11ca60" rel="nofollow">https://preview.crocodoc.com/view/183cbebf-8d01-4f5f-bb3a-5e...</a>

This is impressive: <a href="https://crocodoc.com/see-it-in-action/" rel="nofollow">https://crocodoc.com/see-it-in-action/</a><p>I'm glad there is someone who wakes up every morning really excited about taking some of the worst, most broken, least documented, and eye-gauging binary yet immensely popular file formats in the world (PDF, XLS, PPT, DOC), and turning them into sane documents for viewing on all my screens.<p>That's impressive.

Is this what powers the new Dropbox Preview?

Someone show this to Scribd, quick! And/or switch the Hacker News auto-Scribd-pdf-links 'feature' ASAP...