By popular demand, the PDF Association will hold two more PDF/A seminars in the Scandinavian region. One will take place on the 17th of April 2012, the first to be held in Oslo, Norway. The PDF specialists will then come to Stockholm on the 31st of May 2012. Last year over 70 participants came to the first PDF/A seminar here.
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Converts all popular raster images, such as TIFF or JPEG to PDF/A documents. Optionally OCR text retrieval is available to produce PDF/A documents. [...]
Fear of change is the biggest hurdle for organizations wanting to move from their current electronic archiving format to PDF/A because the believe that it may be difficult to implement and expensive, and not worth the effort to migrate their archives. “There are many upsides to implementing PDF/A,” writes Gary Hodkinson, Managing Director of LuraTech Ltd., in an article on SourcingFocus.com. “Current archiving systems that are based on black-and-white TIFF or basic PDF file formats are not necessarily protected from inaccessibility over the long term. In addition, these formats can result in files that are very large, making it incredibly costly to store documents, particularly those that are scanned in full-colour, and increase bandwidth costs for sharing the files.” Read the full article for more information on why migration is worth the effort. [...]
The PDF/A Converter Service now also is able to convert PDF as well as Image files (TIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP) direct to PDF/A. [...]
The dmstools Printer enables the user to save any printable document as PDF, PDF/A or TIFF. The software has integrated support for DMS or ECMS, at the moment approx. 60 DMS/ECMS of a multitude of manufacturers are directly supported. For software manufacturers and system integrators a powerful interface (COM/ActiveX API) is available. [...]
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. [...]
A large percentage of documents are created from scanned hard copies – but you can use PDF/A for these documents as well. PDF/A-1 is a much more powerful option to archive your scanned paper documents! Learn more about the benefits of converting to PDF/A. [...]
TIFF/G4 has competition in the form of PDF/A, says SEAL Systems. The company offers a nicely packaged overview of PDF/A and its software options. [...]
From not supporting signatures to security, OCR and metadata issues, the 10 biggest myths surrounding PDF/A are examined. Aren’t you curious to see what made our list? [...]
In the area of group insurance, a wide variety of Microsoft Office documents from daily business transactions for creating proposals and managing portfolios of collective contracts are administered in Microsoft SharePoint. These documents were previously archived in TIFF format. By changing to a PDF/A conforming archive directly out of Microsoft SharePoint, Swiss Life intention is to make the documents text-searchable and, by means of a digital signature and time stamp, fulfill compliance requirements. [...]
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