News

August 26, 2010

Press Release:PDF/A-2 a prominent theme at the PDF/A conference in Rome.

July 13, 2010

Press Release:PDF/A Competence Center founds a new chapter in Benelux.

May 4, 2010

Press Release:The PDF/A Competence Center invites you to the 4th International PDF/A Conference in the “eternal city” of Rome.

May 5, 2010

Press Release:New PDF/A Competence Center Chair for North America is Appligent Document Solutions CEO.



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What's new?

4th PDF/A Conference in Italy
Rome, September 30th and October 1st


Colosseum in Rome

Case Studies

The CGN network goes through pdfaPilot to register balance sheets

The first Italian data transmission network that brings together over 20,000 professionals — including accountants, tax and labour experts — has chosen callas’ package as document conversion and verification software for the PDF/A format: completely appropriate transformation and validation for the forms to be presented to the Chambers with the standard’s requirements. Read more

Deeds in PDF/A for the Companies’ Register – Callas validates them

The pdfaPilot tool from callas software is the central point in the Infocamere application which validates deeds in PDF/A format deposited at the Companies’ Register: a legal obligation which is transformed into a service with multiple benefits, from the increase in reputation to the homogeneity of documents later granted to information agencies who deal with their sale. Read more

Ludwigsburg Savings Bank Archives in Color with PDF/A

With a balance sheet total in excess of nine billion euros, the Kreissparkasse Ludwigsburg is the second largest savings bank of its kind in Germany. Account deposits of more than € 5.9 billion, an asset portfolio of € 4.3 billion and nearly 770,000 customer accounts are the result of working together with private customers, corporate clients and municipalities in the Ludwigsburg district. It is the first savings bank to archive all documents in color as PDF/A in the central OSPlus archive of Finanz Informatik GmbH. Read more

DAK migrates their information archive to PDF/A with LuraTech

The DAK, Germany’s second largest healthcare company, has migrated their internal information archive to the new ISO standard PDF/A with help from LuraTech. The archive used to exist as digitalized microfilms, scanned into TIFF format. This had the disadvantages of not only requiring a lot of memory space, but in particular the files could not be full-text searched. Now, after converting and compressing approximately 300,000 pages of text, users of the DAK Info Service have direct access to all saved information. In addition, the DAK gained early knowledge with the PDF/A format, that they will put to use in future projects. Read more

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