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We offer a range of services in addition to our mature products. We can fall back on broad experience in the field of technology and with regard to business administration issues. Over the years we have created customize ...
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Tech corner
The Quality Gate in the digital age – safeguards the quality of your documents
Safeguarding document quality is vital in any business, especially when it comes to sharing documents or digitally archiving them, and specifically if the documents might one day be needed for an audit or a legal issue. ...
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Compression and Optimization – reduce your files to the max
There is no question – storage space is now cheaper and more available to everyone. Neither hardware nor storage costs seem offputting at first. But the volume of data being handled is already massive – and increasing ev ...
Tech corner
SAP Folders Management extended by new functionality of 3-Heights® Document Converter
High-quality PDF formats are of central importance in digital document management and especially in digital file management. The 3-Heights® Document Converter offers document conversion into high-quality PDF/A formats fr ...
PDF standards
ZUGFeRD – A standard for electronic invoices in PDF/A format
Are you still sending out paper invoices to your business partners? Then you may be part of a dying breed. Although 90 percent of all invoices worldwide are still being sent out by post, experts predict that electronic i ...
PDF essentials
Why is PDF/A important for SharePoint implementations?
There is hardly another platform in organizations that has become as widespread as SharePoint. SharePoint Server is not a final product, but an application platform on top of which DMS systems such as windream and custom ...
PDF essentials
Digital born PDF/A - tough nut or potential?
Scanned documents have been archived successfully in PDF/A format for more than six years. However, the attitude towards archiving digitally created documents is more reserved. What are the reasons? Some are obvious: sca ...
PDF essentials
The PDF – we can't do without it
Not all document formats have managed to become a standard and are nowhere near to deliver what they promise. So what can or should we expect from a format? What are the most important quality characteristics of a format ...
PDF essentials
From scan to information – high quality at low data volume
A central scan server service enables large volumes of paper documents to be quickly and efficiently converted into electronic documents, prepared for processing and stored in a long-term archive. A scan server, such as ...
PDF essentials
ZUGFeRD – the new standard for electronic invoices
The ZUGFeRD standard for human and machine-readable electronic invoices supports manual and fully automated processing and long-term archiving. PDF Tools AG offers various products that can be used to create and check ZU ...
PDF essentials
Scan server for digital long-term archiving
These days, most companies no longer wish to waste time and money on filling windowless rooms with paper files or assigning staff to search for paper documents. More and more managers are realizing the benefits of digita ...