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How to render the text of a PDF document if the font is not embedded?
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 but also users of the ...
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Using blockchains as an alternative to PKIs for digital signatures
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 ...
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Mastering Document Archival: using PDF Tools' Conversion Service to transform Word and other Desktop Apps to PDF/A
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The Quality Gate in the digital age – safeguards the quality of your documents
Safeguarding document quality is vital in any business, especially when it comes to sharing documents or digitally archiving them, and specifically if the documents might one day be needed for an audit or a legal issue. ...
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Compression and Optimization – reduce your files to the max
There is no question – storage space is now cheaper and more available to everyone. Neither hardware nor storage costs seem offputting at first. But the volume of data being handled is already massive – and increasing ev ...
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SAP Folders Management extended by new functionality of 3-Heights® Document Converter
High-quality PDF formats are of central importance in digital document management and especially in digital file management. The 3-Heights® Document Converter offers document conversion into high-quality PDF/A formats fr ...
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Why is PDF/A important for SharePoint implementations?
There is hardly another platform in organizations that has become as widespread as SharePoint. SharePoint Server is not a final product, but an application platform on top of which DMS systems such as windream and custom ...
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Digital born PDF/A - tough nut or potential?
Scanned documents have been archived successfully in PDF/A format for more than six years. However, the attitude towards archiving digitally created documents is more reserved. What are the reasons? Some are obvious: sca ...
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The PDF – we can't do without it
Not all document formats have managed to become a standard and are nowhere near to deliver what they promise. So what can or should we expect from a format? What are the most important quality characteristics of a format ...
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From scan to information – high quality at low data volume
A central scan server service enables large volumes of paper documents to be quickly and efficiently converted into electronic documents, prepared for processing and stored in a long-term archive. A scan server, such as ...
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ZUGFeRD – the new standard for electronic invoices
The ZUGFeRD standard for human and machine-readable electronic invoices supports manual and fully automated processing and long-term archiving. PDF Tools AG offers various products that can be used to create and check ZU ...