[Hadoop-common-user] Using Hadoop for File Conversion

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 8:06 AM, davydany wrote:


Hi all,
I'm very new to Hadoop and I am using the Pro Hadoop book to learn. I'm
doing a project for class, where we are required to learn and use Hadoop.
We
are supposed to use Hadoop for converting large amounts of photos into 3
different sizes (one is a thumbnail, next is optimized for mobile devices
and the other is stretched to fit a large screen [image quality is not our
priority here]).

I heard that NYTimes used Hadoop to convert 4TB of TIFFs into PDFs. Now, my
real question is this: Can I use hadoop for file conversion?

Thanks!
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