(Bochum, Germany, July 9, 2012) – This week, Soft Xpansion has unveiled the new version of its PDF program Perfect PDF Premium. Version 8 is [...]
Video recording of a presentation given by David van Driessche at the PDF/A Seminar in Oslo on April 17, 2012. [...]
“Good software for generating PDF usually includes a PDF/A option,” writes blogger Gary McGath. He takes a look at the restrictions required to comply with PDF/A and its long-term benefits. [...]
The use of PDF/A is on the rise by government, courts, libraries and many, many more organizations around the world. If you’d like to work on your own archive, Dino Londis provides simple, step-by-step instructions for making PDF/A files using Distiller [...]
If one wants to eliminate mountains of paper records and the associated retention costs, then the implementation of a legally binding digital archiving system cannot be avoided. But are corporations and their project leaders sufficiently prepared for this? A large part of a company’s “value” lies in documents. They also form the basis for demonstrating proof during legal disputes. The increasing digitization of paper documents and the flood of documents created by digital sources (fax, emails, e-invoicing, MS-Office, web, etc.) are requiring archivists to deal with the special demands of retaining documents in digital format. [...]
If one wants to eliminate mountains of paper records and the associated retention costs, then the implementation of a legally binding digital archiving system cannot be avoided. But are corporations and their project leaders sufficiently prepared for this? [...]
Both solutions offer high recognition quality and impeccable layout retention. Convert PDF documents into editable files, saved as secure PDFs, PDFs optimised for the Internet and tagged PDFs. Support of PDF/A for long term archiving. [...]
As the complexity of the individual electronic archiving formats increases, the requirements for the structure and completeness of the documents must be adjusted accordingly and realized consistently. The aim is to ensure that you can reproduce these documents even after a long time. It only becomes clear at the time of the reproduction whether the criteria for a successful reproduction were also consistently implemented and realized. What are the criteria in this case? [...]
What document format should we use for electronic archive of critical business documents going forward? How do you select a format that has all the necessary functionality? What questions do we need to ask? What are the options? [...]
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. [...]