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 make it possible to create and verify documents that comply with the ZUGFeRD standard. Optimal Readability Paper invoices are a thing of the past. Many other companies now issue their […]
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Nowadays, most companies no longer want to waste time and money filling windowless rooms with paper folders or hiring employees to search for paper documents. It is not only in large companies that more and more executives are recognizing the advantages of digital archiving. But how should it be implemented? Some say to leave it […]
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Companies must find a balance between profitability, feasibility and compliance with lawful requirements. A long-term digital archive containing all the information about the company and its activities can be part of the solution. An archive of reliable tools and structures makes it possible to automatically create matter-specific files. Five years after the conclusion of a […]
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Recognizing new potentials and successfully exploiting them wants to be learned – from urgent orders to long-term digital archives. Digitization is now a recognized process and is becoming more and more visible in our daily lives. The deluge of paper is decreasing, the hanging files and folders are almost retro, and hardly anyone can imagine […]
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PDF Tools is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. Despite its relatively short history, it has been very successful so far. BIT met with the company’s founder, Dr. Hans Bärfuss, to talk about his secret of success, a surprise trip for the company’s anniversary, the advantages of a centralized development department and the challenges facing […]
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Digitization seems to be on everyone’s lips these days. Once it’s a Pixel, someone is sure to pronounce this ever-popular buzzword, followed by many names Of companies, digital philosophers and data gurus. But what exactly do companies gain by “capturing”? Past and (still) present Long before the advent of digitization, postal items were opened, sorted, […]
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Digitization is still progressing heavily and slowly in some areas – while in others it is making great progress. Every day, countless new nodes and connections are formed in our digital memories. Companies are particularly affected by this because they have to keep up with the Digital Transformation – or, ideally, be ahead of it. […]
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The PDF format has firmly established itself in business processes over the past 15 years. The use of PDF can lead to significant savings in all business processes by simplifying workflow processes and reducing costs through standardization. We show you where and how to use PDF and PDF/A in your business processes. The AIIM ECM […]
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It is rare for industrial products to survive more than 20 years, especially in the IT industry. Even the inventors of PDF could not have imagined the success of their file format when they launched the first Version of Acrobat in June 1993. Members of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) are now working on […]
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There are numerous ISO standards that deal with PDF. Below you will find an overview of the various standards, with a focus on PDF/A and PDF 1.7. As a member of the ISO Committee for PDF / A and PDF 1.7, PDF Tools AG has played a significant role in the development of these standards. […]
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A detailed knowledge of PDF/A standards is necessary to create and display PDF/A documents correctly. However, this knowledge alone is not sufficient to optimize PDF/A-related processes. Create PDF/A documents PDF/A documents can come from different sources. The software that creates them must follow the dos and don’ts of PDF/A (including the fix): The fonts used […]
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PDF/a, an ISO standard, guarantees that documents are still readable in 10, 50 or even 100 years. This Format greatly helps to avoid a “digital dark age” and helps to obtain data from the present. Introduction Archiving documents and data from digital sources in PDF/A format has many advantages over storing data in the original […]
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PDF/A is a subset of the PDF file format designed for long-term archiving of digital documents. Here are the 10 most important things to know about PDF/A. 1. PDF/A is an ISO standard An ISO standard represents an international consensus for best practices in compliance with a specification or a standard. PDF/A has been an […]
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PDF/A is the standard for archiving electronic documents. The PDF format is widely used all over the world. It is used for various purposes in the industrial, public and private sectors. The PDF /A standard is the ideal tool to guarantee the preservation and reproducibility of documents over a long period of time. What is […]
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In today’s fast-paced business world, managing a variety of document formats can be a daunting challenge. Companies often struggle with inefficient document management, which leads to delayed processes, increased costs and an increased risk of compliance problems. This is where the PDF tools conversion service acts as a game changer. As a complete PDF conversion […]
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