In zahlreichen Archiven schlummern immer noch unendlich viele Dateien im TIFF-Format. Dieses war in den 90ern durchaus en vogue. Die Welt hat sich aber weiterentwickelt und mit PDF bzw. PDF/A steht ein innovatives Format zur Verfügung, das TIFF in vielen Belangen überlegen ist.
NARA (The National Archives and Records Administration) is the final depository for the long-term records generated by all other agencies of the U.S. Federal Government. The agency has a key role in preserving the cultural history of the republic as well as in maintaining and making accessible those operational records of government deemed of sufficient … Read more
Curious about how PDF and PDF/raster are related? Here’s a quick overview from Datalogics CTO and Chairman of the PDF Association, Matt Kuznicki.
Die PDF Association kooperiert mit dem Nationalarchiv der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika und der Library of Congress, die sich für PDF-Standards engagieren.
This PDF Association’s end-user educational event is intended for the managers, executives and professionals developing institutional strategies for managing electronic documents. The proper and best use of electronic documents is an increasingly important subject, especially in the light of NARA’s new Draft Strategic Guidance, which sets 2022 as the date at which the government’s official … Read more
ActivePDF announced major enhancements to their DocSight OCR product. This update to ActivePDF’s premier optical character recognition (OCR) tool, provides organizations expanded ability to convert files into searchable and editable text PDF with ease, speed and accuracy.
For NARA and (in principle) for all US Federal agencies, paper is officially going obsolete (for records-keeping) in 2022.
v2017R1 summer release of Qoppa’s Java PDF library suite adds improvements to PDF manipulation, PDF optimizer, electronic signatures and preflight features. Qoppa’s advanced Java PDF optimizer library reduces significantly the file size of PDF documents by removing unused objects, compressing images and streams. The optimizer engine was improved with a PDF audit feature, that analyzes the sizes of all … Read more
Federal agencies will advocate for cultural heritage communities in a vendor-neutral environment Berlin, Germany. The National Archives and the Library of Congress have announced that they have joined the PDF Association as Partner Organizations of the non-profit organization which promotes adoption of international standards for portable document format technology. Both federal agencies collect, and produce, numerous … Read more
This summer release of Qoppa’s Java PDF Component suite (v2017R1) adds 4k high resolution display support and tons of improvements to the PDF annotation feature. Qoppa’s PDF components user interface was revised to automatically scale depending on the user screen resolution, and to use vector icons, allowing applications that integrate our PDF viewing and annotating components, … Read more
