Earlier versions of the iText PDF library were already able to render Chinese, Japanese and Korean glyphs in PDF documents, but to correctly display right-to-left scripts like Hebrew and Arabic, we needed the information provided by OpenType fonts to help with handling the complexities of all the world’s writing systems. So, for iText 7 we went … Read more
The most notable feature of our PDF Alchemist scriptable server tool and SDK has always been its ability to intelligently extract text and images from PDFs. With our earliest product releases, we employed sophisticated techniques to automatically identify and reconstruct “text flows” in non-structured PDFs, but we initially offered limited customization features to focus the … Read more
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These vulnerabilities require an attacker to modify an encrypted PDF file, potentially leading to the exfiltration of the document’s contents to an external server. This class of problem is not specific to PDF per se, but is applicable to most formats that support encryption.
We all want our PDFs to work smarter and help us achieve our business goals. But in order to do that, it’s important to understand what solutions we’re able to tap into using PDF’s many capabilities. Redaction, extraction, and optimization are a few of the most important capabilities that can help us achieve an array … Read more
In der biblischen Geschichte haben Noah, seine Familie und viele Tiere eine große Flut überlebt. Paarweise hatte Noah die einzelnen Arten an Bord geholt. Doch ist ein solcher Ansatz, alle Arten von Datei- und Dokumenten-Formaten zusammenzutragen, auch für die Archivierung geeignet? Viele Anbieter von Systemen für Enterprise Content Management (ECM) scheinen jedenfalls auf diese Methode … Read more
To survive a great flood Noah brought pairs from every species aboard his ark. But is this approach – gathering the full diversity of document formats – genuinely suitable for archiving?
Berlin. callas software, a leading provider of automated PDF quality assurance and archiving solutions, recently released License Server, a dynamic way of licensing callas products. With the arrival of License Server, Pixartprinting could finally migrate to a cloud-based infrastructure where they are not tied with a specific set of servers that runs pdfToolbox. Now, they … Read more
Berlin. callas software, ein führender Anbieter automatisierter PDF-Qualitätssicherungs- und Archivierungslösungen, hat kürzlich den License Server veröffentlicht, eine dynamische Methode zur Lizenzierung von callas-Produkten. Mit der Einführung des Lizenzservers konnte Pixartprinting in eine cloudbasierte Infrastruktur migrieren, in der sie nicht auf ein bestimmtes Set von Servern festgelegt sind, auf denen pdfToolbox läuft. Jetzt können sie je … Read more
Earlier this year we covered the release of the Mueller Report covering the Special Counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US election. We highlighted how, in the digital age, the choices made in releasing that document made it rather a sad addition to the transcript of history. There are, of course, many other … Read more
