EPS-- SVG Conversion (Force white colored areas to transparency including background) ?

Question

Hi,
I am trying to convert (export) an EPS image to SVG programmatically as follows, I am having difficulty in converting white areas on the image to transparency; could someone guide me what would be the solution please? 
Dim illusapp = New Illustrator.Application
Dim illusdoc As Illustrator.Document
illusdoc = illusapp.Open(fileStream.Name) //.eps file path 
Dim svgExportOptions As Illustrator.ExportOptionsSVG //Here I don’t have the provision of passing Transparency to True etc.
illusdoc.Export(destination, Illustrator.AiExportType.aiSVG, svgExportOptions) //destination is .svg file path
Thank you very much for your time in taking a look at!!
-SG

Answer 1

I need to do this programmatically ( I mean recognizing white spots on the .eps image and convert them to transparency).
Right now, I have implemented a .NET Web Service which interacts with Illustrator on the server. So if a user request .EPS image to be converted to .SVG, he/she just calls the service method which takes .eps image as an input and returns .svg content as an output. Behind the scenes, service interacts with Illustrator and does the conversion.
Below are few lines of code thru which I am achieving this. Part of this I would like to recognize the white spots/content in the .eps image and convert them to transparency before I convert/export to .svg file.
Dim illusapp = New Illustrator.Application
Dim illusdoc As Illustrator.Document
illusdoc = illusapp.Open(fileStream.Name) //.eps file path
Dim svgExportOptions As Illustrator.ExportOptionsSVG
illusdoc.Export(destination, Illustrator.AiExportType.aiSVG, svgExportOptions) //destination is .svg file path
Thank you all for your time; appreciate if you could share some of your thoughts on it.