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What is PAdES? What does it have to do with PDF? What can PAdES do?
iLovePDF promises “EVERY TOOL YOU NEED TO WORK WITH PDFS IN ONE PLACE” – our PDF Tools support the cloud-based PDF service and contribute to its success
Digital born documents make use of transparency and spot colors. It isn’t uncommon to use geometric lines & curves to represent text, while the machine-readable information is missing.
Find out in our newest testimonial how to improve your meeting preparation and document reviews with our 3-Heights™ PDF Web Viewer and its annotation features.
Automated conversion of Office documents into PDFs has become a popular service. The pros and cons are not obvious, so it’s worth taking a closer look.
A picture is worth a thousand words. However, it is certainly necessary to write more than a thousand words about how images should be embedded correctly in a PDF file.
Get all the information on Final Release 4.11 – about improvements and features, new products and success stories.
The most important changes and improvements concerning PDF 2.0
“Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten”, says a Gucci family slogan. Nevertheless, creators of PDF documents, private users up to large companies, regularly produce files with insufficient quality causing unexpected problems and …
Find out how PDF Tools AG’s PDF technology has contributed to the successful migration of the platform from Java to .Net.
Get all the information on Final Release 4.10 – about improvements and features, new products and success stories.
Find out how the Federal Ministry of Justice integrated the 3-Heights™ PDF to PDF/A Converter in their digital file management system.
Rottal-Metzg AG needed to add a document management system to its myBica ERP solution.
Get all the information on Final Release 4.9 – features and improvements
PDF Tools is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. Despite its relatively short history, it has been very successful so far. Discover our philosophy in the interview with Dr. Hans Bärfuss.
Solothurn’s hospitals needed a solution for the proper archiving of electronic case files in their system.
Almost every user knows: a PDF viewer is not just a display tool for a well known document format. It provides many more functions, runs on many platforms, offers interfaces in many technologies and serves …
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Get all the information on Final Release 4.8 – product changes and improvements
Assembling PDF documents from various sources is a crucial part of an output management system. And, as the document needs to be archived in most cases, it should conform to the PDF/A standard. But, is …
Interhyp opted for the 3-Heights™ PDF to PDF/A Converter from PDF Tools AG, which scored highly in terms of both output quality and overall performance.
Extracting text from a PDF document is one of the most popular information retrieval function. But how about other information such as images, metadata and more? It can be simple – but also tricky.
The modern image and diagnostic report management system JiveX was developed by VISUS for all fields of medicine. It has evolved from a picture archiving and communication system for radiological images into a medical archive …
The traditional technical environment for a digital signature is the public key infrastructure (PKI). Digital signatures are also used to implement electronic money such as Bitcoin. However, Bitcoin uses a new technology, the blockchain. This …
Thanks to the signature and validation service and the integration of the 3-Heights Scan to PDF Server, KIBAG completely replaced its manual document processing procedure with an audit-compliant electronic archiving system.
Come visit our presentations at the PDF Days Europe 2016 and find out how automated PDF generation is being used in connection with SAP at Geberit and get to know, why PDF and PDF/A optimization …
Every developer of a PDF viewer, a PDF printer and a PDF to Image Converter tool comes across the requirement to render non embedded fonts and is facing quite a challenging task. Not only developers …
What are inline images and why do some programmers of PDF readers feel uncomfortable about them?
Get more information about the Final Release 4.6 – new products and enhancements.
Is it possible to convert digitally signed documents to PDF/A? What technical means does PDF offer to perform such a conversion?
In particular in mass printing applications “rich black” values are not wanted, however, and it is required to use “true black” colors which use the K channel only. This article gives some ideas how this …
JBIG2 is a compression algorithm for bitonal images and has been developed to replace the widely used CCITT G4 algorithm because it can reach better compression ratios. However, the algorithm has received a bad reputation …
Detecting pictures in scanned document pages has many advantages such as better compression rates and the possibility to extract them individually.
In order to reduce the file size PDF producers use a technique called font subsetting. What does exactly happen with the fonts and what are the consequences?
Digital signatures are still not very widely used and the the knowledge about them is often fuzzy. This article tries to give an overview about this huge and complex topic.
Although the first part of the PDF/A standard was published in 2005 there is still a need for some clarifications regarding fonts and embedding. What does the standard exactly require? How should PDF to PDF/A …
Bank Hapoalim (Switzerland AG) is a subsidiary of Bank Hapoalim B.M, the biggest bank in Israel. As a mid-size foreign bank in Switzerland, the Bank offers highly personalized services tailored to the needs of clients of …
With around 6,000 employees, 150 company sites and an annual turnover of EUR 1.2 billion (2013), Gebrüder Weiss is one of the leading names in transport and logistics in Europe. In addition to its core …
While talking about PDF validation workflows we often come across questions like “Can I let the validation fail if the paper format does not match our corporate rules?”. This and other customer specific requirements are …
Traditionally a scanner produces a TIFF or JPEG image for each page. Some of them can directly produce PDF files. And newer devices produce files conforming to the PDF/A standard. However, the quality of the …
Mail-Gard, a division of IWCO Direct, is one of the nations leading providers of print-to-mail continuity and recovery services. With locations in Pennsylvania and Minnesota, Mail-Gard maintains fully-secured and dedicated recovery facilities that support cut …
j2 Global® is a leading cloud services company that improves business performance and efficiency for millions of customers worldwide. j2 provides essential business tools such as online faxing, unified communications, hosted email services, email marketing, …
A PDF/A document requires that all resources such as fonts, color profiles, etc. must be embedded in the file. The archiving of transactional documents can be nightmare because such documents are usually short by nature …
If you try to extract images from a PDF file it sometimes happens that you get a bunch of slices of the original image, mostly consisting of a few image rows per slice or, in …
A central service to convert Microsoft Office documents to PDF or PDF/A has obvious advantages. The conversion is done on an enterprise wide platform with well defined software versions and conversion process configurations. This guarantees …
If you use validation software from different manufacturers you sometimes get different results. Why can this happen? Does it mean that you can’t trust the software? What can you do about it? We hear these …
Do you sometimes get a little shock when you wanted to open a PDF file and the viewer only showed an error message? In some cases, however, the viewer can save the file and repair …
I’m sure you’ve heard sometimes phrases like “a printer driver which is based Windows GDI can only reproduce RGB colors” or “if a printer driver isn’t built on top of the PostScript driver one cannot …
We all know that the conversion one file format to another is not as easy as one might wish for and can lead to unpleasant surprises. However, it is hardly known that this is the …
The plan-box construction project room has been in operation for 12 years and proves its worth on a daily basis with more than 5,000 users and around 250 projects. Big-name customers use plan-box to manage …
On an RGB screen or a CMYK laser printer spot colors cannot be displayed directly and must be emulated by converting them into their process color equivalent. The Separation and DeviceN color spaces provide tint …
SSL has a long history of delivering reliable satellites and spacecraft systems for commercial and government customers around the world. As the worlds leading provider of commercial satellites, the company works closely with satellite operators …
Not all document formats have managed to become a standard and nowhere near enough deliver what they promise. So what can or should we expect from a format? What are the most important quality characteristics …
As a subsidiary of the PKV association of private health insurers, MEDICPROOF GmbH assesses compliance with eligibility criteria in the area of private compulsory health insurance. In most cases, it assesses whether an applicant has …
ZUGFeRD is the latest hot topic in the field of electronic invoicing. To integrate documents efficiently and reliably into a business process, it is important that the required standards are met in ZUGFeRD. To achieve …
The ZFV Group is a traditional Zurich-based group of hotel and catering businesses across Switzerland. The group includes the Sorell Hotels Switzerland, various public restaurants, numerous staff restaurants, school and university cafeterias and Zurichs Kleiner …
Pimp my Scan Server! In other words, how to set new standards with a standard scanning solution: in most companies, scanning paper documents has become a routine task when handling incoming mail. Multifunction printers (MFP) …
Delen Private Bank manages assets, primarily belonging to private individuals. Many years of experience result in a well-conceived, balanced investment strategy that is in tune to personal profile and financial objectives of their customers. Delens …
Several weeks ago PDF Tools AG has launched its own blog. This blog contains interesting reports on the long-term archiving format PDF/A and other aspects of PDF technology. The lead author Dr Hans Bärfuss was …
The ALTE LEIPZIGER Life Insurance Society whose business focus is on annuity and disability insurance and company pension plans has counted among Germanys leading life insurers for 180 years. With incoming contributions of …
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