From the perspective of a scanned image conversion such as
tiff to PDF (versus the printer driver method), ArtsImport is
exceptionally fast and produces an excellent result. You can find it at www.pdfstore.com However many
high end scanners usually have the ability to scan paper directly to the
PDF format built in.
Steve Harris
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: [PDFdev] Doc
conversion
As far as I know the products that create PDFs from
electronic files are usually separate from the ones that convert images to
PDF. The reasons are 1) the common mechanizm for electroinic->PDF
conversion is a printer driver, which is not the case for scanned image files.
2) doing these conversions in a good way requires different areas of
expertise. 3) the workflows are often different- electronic docs are created
by individuals in the company while scanned documents are usually done in
large batches on high-end equipment.
So off hand I would look for two different products for
electronic and image if you want to get the best of both.
max.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 2:47
PM
Subject: RE: [PDFdev] Doc
conversion
Here is what the boss asked me:
In order to keep the implementation costs down for our
(Potential) customer, we are investigating alternative PDF creation tools to
substitute for ADOBE ACROBAT. They have a number of departments that
generate documents in WORD (and other Microsoft electronic) formats and need
to output to Image+Text PDF for use in the E.GENDA solution.
In addition, some of the documents will be scanned to TIF
and need to be converted to PDF Image-only (and later converted to PDF
Image+text) for use in E.genda routing.
These are the only requirements given to
me.
At 01:07 PM 5/30/2003 -0400, Wil Paulk
wrote:
I'm mostly comparing it to Adobe Capture, so
formats converted, fidelity
of conversion, and price would be most important.
Then
I'm
confused...
Capture
is a product for scanning paper and OCRing them - while the other products
you mention are for electronic document conversion. AdLib
eXpress, however, includes a scan/OCR module
though.
So
what are you looking
for?
Leonard
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