Category: PDF

The ZUGFeRD standard: E-invoicing gaining ground

The “paperless office” – perhaps not just wishful thinking for long. Now that smartphones have become commonplace, people are using less and less paper (calendars, planners, journals and so forth) in managing their personal affairs. Although most businesses still work with paper documents, they are gradually making the digital transformation. Because of various security considerations,…




PDF Days Europe 2015 – Preview

PDF Days Europe 2015 has established itself as the premier PDF standards event. You can find the PDF Days-Agenda Other subjects and presentations provided tips and tricks on how to use the almost limitless features of the most common PDF programs, output management, electronic invoicing using ZUGFeRD, universally accessible PDFs, and mobile applications. Today, PDF…




Announcing the new Unicode 8.0 standard

Unicode is a character encoding system that assigns each character a unique number independent of the system, program and language. The problem with earlier coding systems was that they supported too few characters and were not compatible among each other. The new Unicode Version 8.0 adds a total of 7716 new characters and six new…


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Converting URLs to PDF

A lot of valuable information can get lost from regular changes in the content of web pages or when entire pages or sites become no longer available. One way of preventing this loss is to locally save the online content as a PDF file. Doing so allows you to prepare specific web content for printing…


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Digital signatures with the webPDF port

The webPDF portal makes it easy to digitally sign your PDF documents and its integrated functions fulfill the requirements of both the German Signature Act (SigG) and the European directives on digital signatures. The addition of a digital signature also lets you do document-related work pertaining to legal matters. And, webPDF signatures satisfy all the…




Converting graphics texts into searchable PDFs

Optical input devices, such as scanners and digital cameras, mostly produce images in the form of raster graphics. Such graphics may well contain texts that your computer alone cannot process as such, especially in light of the fact that it is impossible to edit or search text within such graphics formats as png and jpg….


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Merge files with the webPDF portal

Who hasn’t encountered a variety of information in the course of work that belongs together, but exists as separate files? Classic examples include job applications consisting of a cover letter, resume/CV, a photo of the applicant, and other supporting documentation. Large businesses in particular receive an enormous amount of information that has to be stored…


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Convert more than 100 file formats to PDF

Life in big companies is often plagued by having to deal with and process an enormous number of different file formats. Some formats even require having to install and maintain additional programs in order to work with them. All of this leads to an additional expense and effort that can be easily avoided. One of…


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ZUGFeRD: Maintaining tax documents and records

ZUGFeRD, the data model for the exchange of electronic invoices, is finding greater use: the German Federal Ministry of Finance now explicitly encourages and approves of converting tax-relevant documents to and archiving them in the Portable Document Format (PDF). New policy provisions reflect and respond to the conditions prevailing in today’s world of work and…




Using webPDF and OCR to convert graphic texts into editable PDF documents

In the course of business you’ll often encounter documents that contain text, but are in a format that computer-based word processing does not support. These sorts of files are mostly images from optical input devices, such as scanners, digital cameras and fax receivers, which are produced in the form of raster graphics. Such texts must…