![]() ![]() A related process involves combining multiple documents into a single PDF, with options to add the filenames as bookmarks. Additional features called Document Assembly allow users to selectively choose pages from a source document, like Word, and place the pages into specific locations within the PDF. Document or page editing enables the user to add, delete and reorder pages within a PDF document. Document Editing – This is primarily required at the document or page level, since customers usually prefer to do their content editing in Word or Excel, especially on multipage documents where text and format elements flow over pages.The adoption of PDF 2.0 and PDF/A-4 has been slow, I expect the recent release of the ISO standard 32000-2 by PDF Assoc. Some web sites required Adobe Reader or even Acrobat, but that limitation is very rare now. PDF/X and PDF/E are important for those niche markets which are served by focused competitors. In law firms (the most demanding PDF users) with IP practices, the ability to create PDF acceptable for USPTO submission is crucial. PDF Creation – Most users are satisfied with PDF 1.5, but support for PDF/A is often important for archival and accessibility needs.In my experience working with thousands of companies and the most demanding PDF business users, the most commonly required PDF functionality includes: That original PDF 1.2 document is still available. These days all browsers support PDF viewing, search and byte serving, when you click on a link in the ToC or Index, you immediately view the target page. My book may have been the first searchable PDF content on the Web when we launched on April 1, 1997. What was supposed to be a book about capture and OCR rapidly evolved along with my fascinated exploration of this incredible new format and resulted in simultaneous paper and web publication of “From Paper to Web.” To demonstrate the amazing universal format features of PDF, I put up a web server running Verity Search. ![]() I was amazed to discover that PDF incorporates a robust Document Management architecture in Doc Info fields and Acrobat Catalog. In addition to paper-equivalence for printing and portability, PDF was superior in navigation upon release of PDF 1.0, which included text, images, pages, hypertext links, bookmarks and thumbnails. When he sent Adobe Acrobat 2.0, my amazement at the new format expanded exponentially. OCR: Apples & Oranges.”Ĭhris Hunt, Project Lead on the Capture team reached out to me and asked me to write a book expanding on my insights. Dedicated to OCR since Kurzweil/Xerox in 1983, I was stunned at this brilliant breakthrough – instead of tildes for OCR errors, human-readable image snips of the suspect words appeared in the text! And the output pages looked like the original! I tested Acrobat Capture 1.0 and published an article in Imaging World called “Acrobat Capture vs. My original attraction to PDF struck me when I saw Acrobat Capture on a big screen at the AIIM Show in 1995. My latest book “PDF Expert” shares my experience working directly with the world’s most demanding companies and users over the last 25 years. This article traces the evolving business adoption of PDF as today’s dominant digital document format from the mid-90’s as detailed in my first book “From Paper to Web” (Adobe Press, 1997) until today. ![]()
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