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We’re busy preparing for PDF Days Europe 2020 coming next April, but it’s already time to reward those who plan ahead! Save 150.-€ now at the early bird price of only €229 plus VAT. This offer is only valid until December 31, 2019! Extented until January, 6th! Once again, PDF Days Europe will offer education, expertise … Read more

We’re pleased to announce iText 7.1.9, our latest (and last of 2019!) quarterly release. This release includes further documentation and SVG improvements, as well as updated versions of the pdfHTML, pdfXFA and pdf2Data add-ons.

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UKAAF’s liaison with the PDF Association will help ensure that PDF technology continues to promote and improve easy readability and conversion of documents for visually-impaired users.

What is an LTS release? What has changed? What has the PDF Tools team been working on all year?

Thomas Zellmann discusses the benefits of OCR and of making PDFs fully searchable, especially as input for AI systems.

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The PDF/UA Technical Working Group released Tagged PDF Best Practice Guide: Syntax – to provide developers and expert users with formal advice and best practices for implementing tagged PDF. The guide is also useful to those generating tagged PDF to create accessible documents.

What is the ZUGFeRD Standard? ZUGFeRD is an e-invoicing standard that has been embraced by German-speaking countries within the European Union (EU). The standard came about from the EU, acknowledging the need for an e-invoicing format standard. The “Forum Elektronische Rechnung Deutschland” (FeRD) is the organization that introduced the ZUGFeRD 1.0 specification and has made … Read more

Das Scannen ins Portable Document Format (PDF) oder PDF/A mit Texterkennung sollte im Alltag von Unternehmen inzwischen selbstverständlich sein. Denn dies ermöglicht, gescannte Dokumente in Text zu konvertieren, der ausgewählt, durchsucht und bearbeitet werden kann. Dennoch wissen viele Verantwortliche nicht, worauf sie bei der Auswahl einer neuen OCR-Lösung oder der Optimierung einer existierenden OCR-Strecke achten … Read more

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