DAISY Pipeline 2 is an umbrella term for various things.
DAISY Pipeline 2 is a desktop application for Windows and macOS.
It is a web server to which client programs can connect through a RESTful API.
The DAISY Pipeline 2 web application is an example of such a server-client configuration. Unlike with the desktop application, multiple users can work together in the same application, each through their own web browser, while the actual processing happens on a central server. The web application offers some additional features that are not available in the desktop application, such as “templates”.
There is also a command line interface.
DAISY Pipeline 2 is a Java library.
For Windows users, there is also the Save As DAISY addin for MS Word, which is becoming a DAISY Pipeline user interface specifically for processing Word documents.
“DAISY Pipeline” could also refer to the predecessor of DAISY Pipeline 2 which we now call “Pipeline 1”. Because a lot of organisations still rely on some Pipeline 1 converters in their production today, we are currently working on making these legacy converters available through the DAISY Pipeline 2 user and programming interfaces, in order to make the transition to Pipeline 2 smoother and to retire the Pipeline 1 user interface.