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Dec 13 2021 13. December 2021 21. December 2021 by Christian Schiller

webPDF 8 security update rev. 2372 for the log4j vulnerability CVE-2021-44228

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Sicherheitsupdate

This current update contains security updates and fixes for the server regarding the security vulnerability CVE-2021-44228 in the third-party library log4j found on 9 December 2021, we would like to inform you as follows regarding webPDF: webPDF 7 uses the above library in version 1 and is therefore not affected.webPDF 8 uses the above library…

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Dec 02 2021 2. December 2021 2. December 2021 by Nele Zymek

Current developments at the PDF Association 2021

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PDF Association

Now that the most important event of the year around PDF technology and software has been completed and the PDF Association’s Online PDF Days 2021  has ended successfully with 38 webinars and over 2,000 registered participants, we would like to give a brief insight into the upcoming, further developments at the PDF Association. The PDF…

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Nov 25 2021 25. November 2021 25. November 2021 by Nele Zymek

Add comments to your PDF document

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Insert comments / annotations / note in a PDF document With the webPDF portal, you can customise and edit your PDF documents to suit your individual needs. In addition to inserting watermarks or barcodes, you can also add comments and notes. With this function you have the possibility to comment on your content and to…

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Nov 17 2021 17. November 2021 17. November 2021 by Nele Zymek

Conflicts when creating accessible PDF documents (3/3)

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Barrierefreie PDF Dokumente

Accessibility and PDF/UA PDF and accessibility – a broad field that also brings potential for conflict. Whether in the analogue or digital world, the topic of accessibility is a complex one and can be viewed from many different angles. An environment is considered barrier-free if it has been designed in such a way that it…

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Oct 28 2021 28. October 2021 20. July 2022 by Nele Zymek

How to integrate fax documents into the workflow

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Fax-Dokumente

Unbelievable, but true: The fax machine is still in use in 2021! – The fax machine was first introduced at CeBIT in 1990, and 30 years later – people are still faxing. In that sense, it’s a real success story. However, with a drop of bitterness: If one has to work with fax documents, then…

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Oct 14 2021 14. October 2021 17. November 2021 by Nele Zymek

Creating accessible PDF documents (part 2/3)

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barrierefreie PDF Dokumente erstellen

What exactly does an accessible PDF look like? After our general introduction (part 1/3), what exactly accessibility means, this second part will show how an accessible PDF document can look like. First of all: In general, a PDF document should always be easy to read, here pay attention to appropriate layout/high contrast, so that even…

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Oct 06 2021 6. October 2021 6. October 2021 by Nele Zymek

How to optimise your PDf documents with OCR

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OCR

Using OCR for PDF? Isn’t that a contradiction? You might think so at first, since PDF documents are already digital and OCR technology (Optical Character Recognition) is primarily known for helping to digitise paper documents. However, OCR can also help to facilitate work with PDF documents and a good OCR tool should be able to…

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Sep 16 2021 16. September 2021 17. November 2021 by Nele Zymek

Can PDF documents be accessible?

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For a long time, the rumour has persisted that PDFs cannot be accessible. Unfortunately, this assumption also persists because the possibilities that exist are used far too seldom and are sometimes less well known. The tags and techniques for making PDFs accessible to all people need to be known and, above all, are simply less…

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Sep 08 2021 8. September 2021 8. September 2021 by Nele Zymek

Everything you need to know about the electronic signature

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elektronische Signatur

For all documents that require a signature, you need a corresponding substitute for the digital equivalent, i.e. an electronic signature (sometimes also called an e-signature). You can compare advanced electronic signatures to a kind of seal. Digital documents can be secured in this way. This means that you can check the authenticity of the person…

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Aug 11 2021 11. August 2021 11. August 2021 by Nele Zymek

Transferring PDF/A documents into an archiving system

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Archivsystem

In this specific case, a customer had the requirement to automatically transfer PDF/A documents that were created with webPDF into an archiving system and to add a series of metadata to the documents. The files were initially available in many different formats and were then to be converted into PDF/A and metadata added. Aim and…

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