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…
Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) is the highest agency within the country’s Federal Ministry of the Interior responsible for matters of IT security. To ensure legal conformity, the BSI has prohibited scanning methods that utilize so-called pattern matching and substitution for image compression, an example being JBIG2. This prohibition also applies to the…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
In the healthcare sector, dependable and trustworthy communication between health insurance organizations and their policyholders is everything. E-mail, of course, plays a key role in all of this. The daily flood of incoming mails and the many statutory requirements for compliance, security, and archiving pose an enormous challenge for IT departments and administrative staff alike….
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…