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How to fix your exception queue with document normalization
When documents start piling up in the exception queue, people often blame OCR or extraction errors. However, the root cause often appears earlier in the pipeline — and when it’s not addressed, efficiency suffers.
How keeping humans in the loop improves AI redaction
Businesses today are faced with what seems like an impossible choice: embrace AI and its potential improvements to productivity, but also the potential security risks it brings, or maintain existing human-driven workflow ...
Is document processing your data sovereignty blind spot?
PDF data extraction: from unstructured files to scalable workflows
What is PDF/UA and why it matters for PDF accessibility
How to fix your claims pipeline with structured key-value extraction
Mastering Document Archival: using PDF Tools' Conversion Service to transform Word and other Desktop Apps to PDF/A
PDF SDKs: Open Source vs. Proprietary | Guide Part 1
PDF SDKs: Open Source vs. Proprietary | Guide Part 2
Getting started with PDF SDK | Quickstart Guide
TIFF Mixed Raster Content (MRC) conforming to RFC 2301
Mixed Raster Content (MRC) is a process to reduce the size of raster images. It is well known since PDF/A is used to archive scanned documents. However, it has been used and standardized in RFC 2301 for TIFF files earlie ...
Stroking geometric paths - not as easy as it seems
In PDF geometric paths are simply described as lines and cubic bézier curves. The filling of a path is straight forward once one understands the even-odd and non-zero-winding rule. The stroking of a path however is not a ...
PDF transparency reviewed
This new blog thread is dedicated to the development of the PDF standard and its associated sub-standards. As a delegate of the Swiss Standardization Association (SNV) in the ISO Comittee I'm supposed to review all relat ...
Controlling enveloping machines using OMR markers
In this new blog thread I'd like to inform you about new features and applications of our tools. Enveloping machines can be magically controlled with these tiny dashes called OMR markers on the border of a printed sheet. ...