Businesses see in metadata a useful tool for organizing their information and documents. The maxim holds true: When collecting data, the more time you invest in intelligent management and the set-up and maintaining of databases, the greater will be the added value over the medium and long term. This is an investment that is obviously…
What’s the deal with PDF/A? Originally designated PDF/A-1, this standardized version of the conventional PDF format was established as the international standard ISO 19005-1 in late 2005 and has been available as an ISO standard in its extended versions PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-3 since July 2011 and October 2012 respectively. Since that time, and for a…
PDF/H was released in 2008. As indicated by the H designator, this format is designed for use in the healthcare industry and is not an ISO standard. PDF/H incorporates a number of best-practice recommendations for the healthcare sector, which were compiled by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), Adobe and an American business…
OCR as time goes by: The first machine-readable font was developed for the American government 45 years ago. Much has changed in the world of OCR technology from that time until today. 1968 was a revolutionary year – not just in the sense of political upheaval, but in the history of the computer as well….
Information about the geometry of a PDF document plays an enormously important role in the printing industry Unlike the PDF/A format, which does not explicitly include printing related requirements, the PDF/X standard requires that information about the page’s geometry be specified using page boxes. One of the things these boxes define is where on a…
PDF/UA (Universal Accessibility) was formalized in July 2012 as the ISO 14298-1 standard and is the designation for a variety of PDF specifically designed to create accessible PDF documents. This standard provides a uniform description of the requirements that a PDF document must satisfy, and which also fulfills the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. The…
As a compliance requirement, a careful system of document lifecycle management (DLM) is of crucial importance. The complete lifecycle of a document – from its creation, to storage and archiving, all the way to disposal – needs a precise audit trail to ensure compliance with auditing requirements. For businesses, and especially today when the flood…
How to use PDF documents with audio and video as multidimensional communications tools PDF files are the ideal exchange format since they can be opened on any platform and they avoid those notorious conversion problems that can occur on devices with different operating systems. But here’s something not many people know: Adding audio and video…
The PDF/X format defines a version of PDF that has been an important standard in the printing process for more than ten years. PDF/X is a subset of the PDF specification that satisfies the needs of the printing-technology industry and fulfills the minimum standards for ensuring that materials can be printed properly. The primary purpose…
More security: PDF document encryption can be accomplished relatively easily and you can basically choose between two different types of encryption, namely using password or certificate security. An appropriate level of protection is recommended when exchanging particularly sensitive or mission-critical documents. The security offered by conventional transfer methods – such as sending by e-mail or…