Document Service - Alternatives for dynamic conversion?

In WebCenter Portal, there's the Documents Service. If you are for example in the Document Manager task flow and click a document, it will show you a preview of the document (if configured properly, see:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E28280_01/webcenter.1111/e12405/wcadm_documents.htm#BABBCAHI) This preview is dynamically created using the Dynamic Converter component in WebCenter Content.
I've found that some users don't see the advantage of having a dynamically created preview. Generating the preview can take very long for complex documents and often the preview (of for example, a large Excel sheet) does not reveal a lof of information and people choose to download the document anyway.
Do we have any alternatives for the preview functionality? Perhaps a direct download, or alternative plugins? The only alternative I see is showing the document properties instead, but that's not very user-friendly. Any ideas?

Hi Jaap ,
I think you can take a look at the Thumbnail functionality , which would show a snippet of the actual file rather than doing an entire Dynamic conversion . Not sure how much of in-context would this solution be , but just an idea .
Use case : https://forums.oracle.com/thread/2472735
Thanks,
Srinath    

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