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On April 19 we published an analysis of the Mueller report PDF released by the US Department of Justice. Further analysis of the PDF file reveals an additional serious problem. Even after running OCR software, the report isn’t truly searchable. Take-aways The workflow DoJ chose for releasing the PDF of Mueller’s report makes the work of … Read more

Chicago, IL – March 8, 2018 – Datalogics, the premier source for PDF, EdTech and eBook technologies, announces the release of PDF2IMG, version 2.5. This new release includes improved support for removing unneeded whitespace margins from rendered pages, and enhanced font and color space resource capabilities to ensure accurate and “true-to-original” file conversions. PDF2IMG can now accurately … Read more

This summer release of Qoppa’s Java PDF Component suite (v2017R1) adds 4k high resolution display support and tons of improvements to the PDF annotation feature. Qoppa’s PDF components user interface was revised to automatically scale depending on the user screen resolution, and to use vector icons, allowing applications that integrate our PDF viewing and annotating components, … Read more

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This document describes PDF/raster, a strict subset of the PDF file format designed for storing, transporting and exchanging multi-page raster-image documents.

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.

US agencies have released updated guidelines on digitizing books and other materials.

Appligent has released version 6.0 of StampPDF Batch now with dynamic variable substitution, mix and match page sizes, and watched folders.

The Document Imaging Report covers PDF Day and talks about support for PDF in the ECM marketplace.

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