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Dropbox Evolves Riviera Platform to Support AI Workloads and 300+ File Formats
Key points
- Riviera now supports over 300 file formats and 100+ transformations.
- Platform processes hundreds of thousands of transformations per second.
- Supports AI workloads for Dropbox products like Dash and Search.
- Public APIs expose capabilities for document conversion and transcription.
Riviera's Expanded Capabilities
Dropbox has evolved its Riviera platform from a file preview service into a universal content processing platform. It now supports over 300 file formats and more than 100 transformation capabilities, processing hundreds of thousands of transformations per second. This expansion allows the platform to support AI workloads across Dropbox products such as Search, Replay, Sign, and Dash.
Composability and Architecture
Riviera's design decomposes content processing into reusable transformations, which can be composed into various processing pipelines. For example, a PowerPoint preview can be generated by converting it to PDF, then converting PDF pages to images. The architecture separates orchestration from execution, with a central component managing requests and dispatching work to backend workers, while a plugin model allows for adding new capabilities.
Supporting AI Workloads
The platform was already used for AI processing, converting content into text and embeddings for AI-powered summaries and question answering. With the latest expansion, Riviera provides transformations for extracting and normalizing content for Dash's search and AI capabilities, which process content from Dropbox and connected services. This allows Dash to integrate with the existing processing pipeline.
Public API Access
Dropbox has also made Riviera's capabilities accessible through public APIs. Developer documentation details asynchronous endpoints for converting documents to Markdown, transcribing audio and video, and extracting structured metadata. The Markdown API supports applications like indexing, rendering, and providing documents as input for other processes.
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Dropbox has expanded its Riviera content processing platform to handle over 300 file formats and more than 100 transformation capabilities, supporting AI workloads for products like Search, Replay, Sign, and Dash. This evolution allows AI features to reuse existing content processing infrastructure, enabling functions such as AI-powered summaries and content indexing.