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PDF Tools' Conversion Service Workflows for Companies: Solving Modern Document Management Challenges

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How to get started with the Conversion Service using Postman

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All about PDF/A for long term archiving

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The 10 most important things you should know about PDF/A

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The history and origin of the format PDF/A

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PDF/A-2 Overview

In July 2011 the ISO released the PDF/A-2 standard. in anticipation of introducing PDF/A-2, business are asking us two key questions: What are the drivers behind the PDF/A-2 standard? What is different from PDF/A-1 to PD ...

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PDF/A-3 Overview

PDF/A-3 meets an important user requirement, namely an option to embed file formats that do not comply with the PDF/A standard. Because this amendment is desirable but controversial, it remains the only change to the PDF ...

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PDF/A-4 Overview

PDF/A-4 was published in the fall of 2020 and is therefore the latest part of the PDF/A series of standards. It is based on ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0) and is both an evolution of PDF/A-3, which is based on ISO 32000-2 (PDF1.7 ...

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PDF/A for digitally-born documents – archiving MS-Office documents, emails and websites

PDF/A, an ISO standard, guarantees that documents can still be read in 10, 50 or even 100 years from now. This format contributes significantly towards avoiding a "Digital Dark Age" and helps to maintain data from the pr ...

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PDF/A processing

Detailed knowledge of PDF/A standards is necessary in order to create and accurately display PDF/A documents. Nevertheless, this knowledge alone is not sufficient in the attempt to optimally configure PDF/A-related proce ...

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PDF 2.0 – next generation

It is rare for industrial products to survive for more than 20 years – especially in the IT industry. Not even the inventors of the PDF could have imagined just how successful their file format would be when they launche ...

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