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Title (Goal)Amherst - binary derivative generation
Primary ActorUnknown User (acoburn)Developer
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Story (A paragraph or two describing what happens)For binary objects that are added to fedora, we would like to have a service that will generate derivatives. This would include, e.g. extracting thumbnails from PDFs, MPEGs, or larger (TIFF, JP2) image formats. For many binary formats, multiple derivatives would be needed, e.g. a medium-sized image. Ideally, these would be generated automatically whenever binaries of certain MIMEtypes are ingested. This processing should be something that can be distributed over N servers.

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