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Thanks to the signature and validation service and the integration of the 3-Heights™ Scan to PDF Server, KIBAG completely replaced its manual document processing procedure with an audit-compliant electronic archiving system.

Detecting pictures in scanned document pages has many advantages such as better compression rates and the possibility to extract them individually.

While talking about PDF validation workflows we often come across questions like “Can I let the validation fail if the paper format does not match our corporate rules?”. This and other customer specific requirements are indeed useful extensions to the pure file format and standard conformance tests. Customer specific tests depend on whether the document … Read more

A PDF/A document requires that all resources such as fonts, color profiles, etc. must be embedded in the file. The archiving of transactional documents can be nightmare because such documents are usually short by nature and contain huge number of copies of the same Frutiger font, sRGB color profile and company logo. Many archives therefore … Read more

If you use validation software from different manufacturers you sometimes get different results. Why can this happen? Does it mean that you can’t trust the software? What can you do about it? We hear these and more questions very often and we can understand the user’s concerns. In this article we try to shed some … Read more

Features New Fixups Remap characters from Unicode Private Use Area: Map Unicode from PUA to another valid Unicode Remove all tagging information: Removes all tagging structure Enhanced Fixups Font to outline: “Apply to” added to control, which fonts are outlined Desktop Visualizer: Added option to set simulation profile and improved handling if an OutputIntent exists … Read more

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