Looking for someone to software engineer a image catalog viewer for a business..? (can compensate) - /g/ (#105917949) [Archived: 340 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/15/2025, 9:33:01 PM No.105917949
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OKay, sorry 4chan if this against this boards rules, i don't come on this board.

Okay so i work with a company that uses 7 or 8 big, huge three ring binders, which hold over 6,000 different car parts/products. All saved from CorelDraw files. (We use vector art to cut out and make material for car parts) We are attempting to get rid of these binders filled with paper, and just have tablets that hold the entire catalog.

All of the hard work is done, we have over 6,000 files, everything is graphic designed out, even the book pages are created and saved. We already bought and setup the tablet. This is the thing. All I am looking for is a way to view these CorelDraw (cdr files) on a tablet. keep them not zoomed in at all, and keep them viewed just like a piece of paper would be seen.
Any information on what app I should use, if there is one already (and you would think there would be, because it is just a image catalog viewer) so that i can get cdr files simply viewed on a tablet to eliminate 6 parts printed out on paper. Thanks for any advice of help, I can give out burner email if you'd like to talk.
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Anonymous
7/15/2025, 9:43:00 PM No.105918048
>>105917949 (OP)
Couldn't you just export them into DWG files from Corel? There are plenty of apps for viewing them on a tablet
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Anonymous
7/15/2025, 9:43:28 PM No.105918051
okay sorry i forgot to post the question.

Does anyone know how to take our catalog of thousands of small vector art drawings, and make an image viewer program to scroll thru and view book pages on out knew Microsoft tablet???

software that takes CorelDraw files and views them like a page of a book
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Anonymous
7/15/2025, 9:53:58 PM No.105918162
>>105918051
just export them to PDF format? (probably can set up a macro to export all 6k files)
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Anonymous
7/15/2025, 10:01:15 PM No.105918216
>>105918162
and mutool can be used to take a bunch of individual pdf files and merge batches of them in one pdf (resulting in something like carparts_a_c.pdf, carparts_d_f.pdf etc)

mutool merge -o merged.pdf ./source_documents/*.pdf

cleanup (unnecessary shapes, metadata etc):
mutool clean -gggg -c -l ./merged.pdf merged_cleaned.pdf

you could even run them through tesarrect to get some character recognition for text search
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
(it can be quite bad with tabulated text but maybe with some options tweaking worth a shot)

and then just open them in whatever pdf viewer (sumatra, okular, adobe, web browser...)
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Anonymous
7/15/2025, 10:19:20 PM No.105918405
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>>105917949 (OP)
there is literally an app for that on microsoft store, wtf? did you even try to google this?
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9n8v0tl7hb87?hl=de-DE&gl=DE
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 1:06:40 AM No.105920175
>>105918216
OP here,

okay, im really liking this idea, though this wasnt my first choice, because it make take a lot of time. but yes i will probaby take all corel files and make them pdf's. Thank you for great tips and ways to do so. I am not fluid in code, but mutool clean might be something I can do.

i probably will not need to tesseract, there is not much text on these files, except for file name maybe. but thank you so much for this.

and im thinking about having 6,000 pdf files, not just one huge merged one. that way the names could still be searchable, like alphabetized. I think i got it covered.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 1:07:50 AM No.105920184
>>105918048
OP here, yea i might have to export them as dwg or something else, youre right. thatll be my first step. thanks for the advice.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 1:09:07 AM No.105920199
>>105918405
okay, that app is complete trash, views it in a weird and zoomed in scaled way, then after 3 files they ask for money. yes ive googled and tried coreldraw viewers and they are all garbage.