The new release of Nuance PDF Converter Enterprise includes the following capabilities:

• Smarter PDF Document Assembly – A new visual document assembly feature which allows users to drag-and-drop existing office documents such as MS-Excel, MS-Word and MS-PowerPoint with PDF documents.
• Smarter PDF for the Web – A new PDF toolbar which enables the users to interact with PDF documents within the Web browsers. The users can convert PDFs to MS-Word or MS-Excel, perform PDF annotation and fill PDF forms while the users are still within the Web browser.
• Smarter PDF to Office Conversion – Improved accuracy, by at least further 20%, in converting PDFs to MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint and Corel WordPerfect documents.
• Smarter PDF Scanning – A one-click easy-to-use scanning feature which includes scan-and-highlight and scan-and-redact features.
• Smarter PDF Search - Enhanced and powerful search feature which includes Look-Like Search to find items that have distinct patterns and Search-and-Markup to highlight search matches throughout the document.
• Smarter PDF for Paperless Workflows – Integration with leading Content management systems such as Microsoft SharePoint, Autonomy iManage WorkSite, OpenText DocsOpen, Connectivity Solutions and LiveLink. The integration allows users to directly open, edit and save PDF documents within the Content management systems.

Nuance PDF Converter Enterprise 7 also supports the integration with Nuance eCopy ShareScan, its scanning and document workflow solution for multifunction printers (MFP).

Check more details at http://www.nuance.com/pdf

The press release appeared at http://www.marketwatch.com/story/nuance-pdf-converter-enterprise-7-delivers-time-saving-innovations-that-make-it-the-smarter-pdf-software-for-the-office-2010-08-02?reflink=MW_news_stmp

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Nuance PDF Converter Enterprise 7 released

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PDFpen 4.7 includes a new feature of ‘Save to Evernote’ which prompts users to login to Evernote and save the PDF document with the name and note title. This would enable PDFpen users to leverage Evernote’s capabilities to store their PDFs and access these documents from web browser, iPhone or iPad.

PDFpen 4.7 is also available in Professional Edition which provides additional capabilities such as Fillable forms, Table of Content and few others.

PDFpen and PDFpenPro requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later. An Intel 1.8 Ghz processor or above is recommended for OCR. Direct scanning requires Mac OS X 10.6.

The detailed list of features of PDFpen 4.7 is available at http://www.smileonmymac.com/PDFpen/features.html

The demo versions are available at http://www.smileonmymac.com/PDFpen/download.html.

The news appeared at http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/pdfpen_4.7_gets_evernote_support/

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PDFpen 4.7 now includes support for Evernote

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Nitro PDF Reader can be used to create PDFs, review and comment PDFs, save PDF Forms and content extraction. Nitro PDF Reader is now available in the following five languages:

1. German
2. French
3. Spanish
4. Italian
5. Dutch

Nitro PDF Software also announced its plan to release the software in further more languages in coming months.

Nitro PDF Reader is available for free from http://www.nitroreader.com/

The news appeared at http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/press/nitro-pdf-reader,1359830.html

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Nitro PDF Software announces its PDF Reader in five languages

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Not just a free reader

These days, it’s fairly difficult to get excited when you hear of yet another free PDF reader. I mean seriously, how many times can you read the one PDF, right?

But whoa daddy – when it comes to Nitro Reader, you need to make sure you’re sitting down before you fire it up. It’s so jam-packed-full-of-features that just won’t cost you a cent – I can guarantee you’re going to make the switch – or at least come pretty darn close to it.

Unlike most bloggers who have given their reviews of the product,  I have been going into hand-to-hand combat with PDF for over 15 years. Making PDF products, using PDF products, pretty much anything you can think is possible to do with a PDF — I’ve done it. And after all this time, yes, after making the Nitro Reader drop and give me twenty.

It’s now my default PDF reader.

Nitro Reader is not just a Reader

Why would that be I hear you ask, or at least you should be asking? Well, it’s because the name itself is kind of misleading. You see it’s called the Nitro Reader – but, it’s actually far from Reader. It’s more a cut down version of the entire Nitro Professional product itself — we’re talking reading, writing, modifying, updating, the whole shebang.

The sort of thing that you would normally (and be happy to) pay a little something for.

And while it may have been possible to cobble together a variety of products on your computer – maybe some open source, maybe some free from other vendors to achieve a similar result. What’s the reality? Well, the software usually looks terrible and relies on your wizardry to make work together. And with respect to some of the new Nitro features, well, they just don’t exist at all.

Nitro Reader Task Bar

I don’t want to spend a whole lot of time running you through tips and how-to’s here — I’ll give you my quick appraisal here and you can go download it and see what you think yourself:

1. It’s easy to use, you don’t need a manual. It doesn’t have a bevy of tiny buttons that require a magnifying glass or microscope.

2. The features that are free, really are free. They’re not free for 14-days, or free for 5 PDF files, or for 25 pages. A quick list of the features from the taskbar:

• Add Note – Use this tool to add a sticky note to a PDF containing comments
• Highlight Text – You can highlight text on the page in all colors
• Type Text – Use this to indelibly type text directly onto the page
• Stamp Signature – The Nitro team say you can use the  ”Stamp Signature” to add your signature. Actually, this tool lets you stamp an image onto the page. It can be your signature, it can be a picture of your face, a picture of your dog, your mother-in-law, anything you want. But shhhh! Don’t tell them I told you.
• Create From File – Select a file, convert it to PDF and load into the Reader.
• Extract Text – Well, um, surprise surprise, it extracts the contents into a text file for reuse.
• Extract Images – Rips out all of the images within the file into a folder for reuse. Great for readers of “Men’s Magazine’s”.
• Reset Forms – Clears all the form field values so you can start from scratch.

3. You can actually fill in and save PDF forms. This is not possible in Adobe Reader at present. In fact, if you want to do this using Adobe’s products, you must be ready to fork out the cashola for Acrobat Standard or in some cases Adobe LiveCycle. If that’s the path you take, I hope you have deep pockets — made of fire retardant material.

Form Fields That Save

4. As I mentioned previously, we’re not dealing with just a reader here — converting to PDF is just as easy as dragging a document onto the Nitro Reader icon. PDF viewing, form filling, markup and conversion? Yes. And more.

Drag and Drop Conversion

But why?

Why have Nitro released a free PDF reader that not only competes with Adobe Reader but blows it out of the water?

It’s very simple. Nitro has another product called Nitro PDF Professional which is not free, but competes with Adobe Acrobat for professional PDF users. Nitro is betting that once you’ve tried out the 100%  free Nitro Reader then you’ll be willing to upgrade to the Professional version at a later date when you need to perform more advanced PDF tasks.

So there you have it, Nitro Reader has arrived and Adobe Reader looks rather behind-the-times in comparison.

Who knows where this will end — but one thing is for sure — the game has changed and Nitro is leading the charge.

FULL DISCLOSURE: While I am an investor in Nitro PDF (among others), this review is objective. My first experience with the Nitro Reader was part of the private beta review on May 12, 2010.

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Nitro Reader Blasts Off

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Foxit Phantom PDF Suite 2.0 offers an affordable alternative for viewing, editing, creating, designing, organising and securing PDFs. The new features or capabilities included in Foxit Phantom PDF Suite 2.0 are:

• Batch file conversion
• Convert multiple files to multiple PDFs or merge into a single PDF file
• Initial document creation directly from Foxit Phantom PDF
• Change page order by dragging and dropping thumbnails
• Select pages from thumbnails for printing
• PDF Form and Database interaction with Phantom ODBC support
• Insert blank pages or pages from a scanner

The price of Foxit Phantom PDF Suite 2.0 starts at USD 129. A free trial copy of Foxit Phantom PDF Suite 2.0 is available at http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/phantom/

The press release appeared at http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/foxit-unveils-foxit-phantom-pdf,1268154.shtml

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New Foxit Phantom PDF Suite 2.0 with multiple file conversion

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“The original version of Quick PDF Tools was and still is freeware — it’s a simple right-click utility for doing PDF-related tasks,” said Rowan Hanna, Debenu CTO, “it’s very popular, something we’re really pleased to put our name to”.

“… But in building this version we took what was mighty, and also made it professional — something a business user could use,” quipped Hanna, “in fact, Karl De Abrew our CEO said to me, if we didn’t make this ourself he’d actually buy a copy himself.”

It will let you preview PDF files, merge and split PDF files, crop and rotate pages, extract form field data, edit JavaScript, convert PDF to text and much more.

The professional version is available for $59 USD from the official Quick PDF Tools website – http://www.quickpdftools.com/

Disclosure: 4xPDF.com is run by Debenu.com the makers of Quick PDF Tools

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A mighty professional box of PDF tools

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A brief list of the new features and innovations included in version 6 are:

• XPS document format support with the ability to export PDFs into XPS document and vice-versa
• PDF Creation directly from within MS Outlook to convert emails, calendar entries and attachments into PDFs
• Fully compatible with Windows 7 and MS Office 2010 – supports 32 and 62-bit environments
• Ability to create interactive PDFs by implementing events and corresponding actions in the PDF documents. The actions can also be performed in the PDF Viewer of Perfect PDF Premium 6. The previous software only supported actions in Adobe Acrobat
• Supports XFDF and FDF in PDF Forms
• New features for forms editing such as special highlights on form fields and display the name of fields in edit mode
• Ability to add links to external and embedded files
• Ability to manage multiple changes and revisions to PDFs
• Ability to add and replace text
• Enhanced search and find features to locate text patterns. The search facility displays the results in a more user friendly manner
• Powerful editor for backgrounds, watermarks, stamps, headers and footers
• Ability to import content directly from TWAIN comaptible hardware such as scanners and webcams
• Installation in two languages – English and German

Perfect PDF Premium 6 runs on Windows 7 / Vista / XP and supports integration with MS Office 2010 / 2007 / 2003.

Perfect PDF Premium 6 is priced at EUR 79.99 while the upgrade from version 6 to 7 is priced at EUR 39.99. soft Xpansion is also offering a 25% discount for new customers until 10th April 2010. The software is available via soft Xpansion’s webshop at http://www.eknow-how.de/shop-en/pprod/sp01900e.php

The press release can be read at http://www.pr-inside.com/soft-xpansion-s-perfect-pdf-premium-r1798829.htm

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Enhanced Perfect PDF Premium 6 for creating and editing PDFs

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FormSprint provides a range of capabilities for all document-related needs for iSeries, System i and i5/OS installations, including merging form overlays with spool file data, generating MICR, generating barcodes and distribution of documents.

The new PDF features in FormSprint 201001 include the capability to notify the QSYSOPR (or other user profile) when large FormSprint PDF batch jobs end in error. ICS also provides an optional add-on, called Power PDF, to convert the output from FormSprint into PDF document.

For more information see Alex Woodie’s article at IT Jungle.

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ICS releases new version of FormSprint

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The pdf-Office Professional is a cost-effective alternative to Adobe Acrobat which can handle from simple text fields to complex programming in PDF forms. The pdf-Office Professional offers MS-Word like graphical interface for designing and creation of PDF forms. In addition, the pdf-Office Professional provides an option to create, edit and migrate bookmarks in PDF documents.

The pdf-Office Professional software is available for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux at EUR 117.81 (incl. VAT).

The press release can be read at http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100228005055&newsLang=en

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pdf-Office Professional now includes JavaScript Interpreter

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The DocuSign Version 10.1 provides new features and functionality for supporting workflow and productivity which includes form field automations and enhancements to the workflow for simplifying user experience. The release of ESIGNControl, an application specifically designed for Apple iPhone users, further extends the feature set of application which is designed by Smart Mobile Solutions.

Founder and Vice President of Product Strategy at DocuSign, Tom Gonser said “This release of DocuSign version 10.1 adds more sophisticated capabilities that make it faster and easier than ever to get documents signed online, and to share data with other core business applications.”

DocuSign Version 10.1 – Features at a Glance

• Conversion of Adobe PDF Form Fields automatically :: When you upload Adobe PDF forms into the DocuSign system, the PDF form fields including textbox, dropdowns, radiobuttons and checkboxes are automatically recognized and converted into secure DocuSign fields which can then be assigned to specific recipients. Manipulation of these fields can be done without any other software requirement.
• New Enhancements to DocuSign for Salesforce :: All the functionality of  DocuSign can now be accessed from Salesforce only. Users of Saleforce can send any document for signature to DocuSign easily, just like sending any other email. The sales process is dramatically streamlined with new capabilities eliminating  rekeying of information.
• ESIGNControl for the Apple iPhone :: This allows DocuSign clients to use their Apple iPhone for accessing, sending, signing and managing electronic documents. With this, Managers can track their sales through robust reporting functionality. One can download the ESIGNControl from iTunes and other websites.

To know more about the pricing  and availability of DocuSign, visit www.docusign.com

Source of Information [http://www.docusign.com/news_and_events/press_releases/2010-02-24.php]

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Version 10.1 SaaS eSignature Service launched by DocuSign

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Feeding America is embarking on its Project Athena which is an organisation-wide initiative to upgrade the office technology including deployment of Windows 7 and MS SharePoint. Nuance PDF Converter Professional software will be integrated with MS Office, MS SharePoint and email.

Feeding America uses PDF to reduce costs on printing, fax and postal by distributing PDF documents via email instead of using paper. Also, the various food banks across the country do not require any source software to view the PDFs. Nuance PDF Converter will assist in converting the static electronic forms into fillable PDF forms which could be completed, saved and emailed by food banks.

The news release can be read at http://eon.businesswire.com/portal/site/eon/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100223005509&newsLang=en

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Feeding America selects Nuance PDF Converter

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Perfect PDF Master 6 allows to create PDF files within any application through a creation of new ‘virtual’ printer which prints the documents into a file rather on a paper. Perfect PDF Reader 6 is an alternative to Acrobat Reader and also allows the users to save filled up forms. As the PDF-based help is advantageous over the use of .chm, .htm and .hlp files, the Perfect DocuReader 6 can be used to view context-sensitive help content and electronic user manuals.

The freeware PDF software from soft Xpansion supports Windows 7, Vista, XP, Server 2003 and 2000.

The press release can be read at http://www.live-pr.com/en/free-software-for-basic-pdf-needs-r1048399797.htm

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Free PDF software available in multilanguage versions

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The application allow users to create PDF documents and recognize text from pre-existing image- or paper-based documents, making it possible for them to be searched, edited, archived, and published. The document consolidation and archival process is streamlined with the use of I.R.I.S. technology, allowing fully-compliant, easily-archived PDF/A documents creation from disparate documents and images. It supports multi-language and can be used on documents written in English, German, French, and Spanish.

Along with the implementation of all-new OCR technology, the release inhabits all the features of Nitro Pro like creating, converting, editing, combining, securing, form-filling, reviewing and saving industry-standard PDF files.

Gina O’Reilly, Nitro’s SVP, Sales & Marketing said “As the single most requested feature, by an overwhelming majority, from our users, it was never a question of whether or not we add OCR to our feature set – simply, “how quickly can we build it?”. He also added “Our flagship product, Nitro Pro, has been firmly established as an incredibly persuasive, fully-featured offering within the desktop PDF software marketplace, so the addition of OCR further cements its status as the leading PDF solution for enterprise while reinforcing our commitment to meeting the needs of our users.”

To buy the latest from Nitro PDF software visit http://www.nitropdf.com/store/nitro_pdf_professional_ocr.htm

Source of Information [http://www.nitropdf.com/corporate/pr/pr_090210.htm]

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Nitro PDF Professional OCR with Optical Character Recognition released by Nitro PDF Software

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Company’s CEO, Eugene Xiong said “Compatible with Windows 7, Foxit Phantom will provide users of our business ready PDF software enhanced functionality and significant value. For businesses that need to create and use professional PDF documents, Foxit Phantom provides PDF document creation from hundreds of file formats, direct content editing, electronic forms design, and enhanced document security.”

Foxit has been involved with Microsoft Corp. and delivered different PDF solutions within the Microsoft ecosystem which includes iFilter, Foxit PDF Security Suite, and the Foxit Reader. Foxit Phantom is the latest software to be fully functional in the Microsoft workspace.

To know more about the solution or download the 30-day trial version, visit www.foxitsoftware.com/phantom

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Foxit announces PDF software compatible with Windows 7

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The new FDFMerge comes powered with the Adobe PDF Library enhancing reliability in opening and repairing damaged PDF files. A new feature “CommandCollections” is also added to speed operations and more.

The application was first released in 1998 and has been in continuous development since. It is the first server software for PDF forms with features of form filling and flattening to selective flattening, form-field attribute management, document security and much more.

FDFMerge is used in various sectors including Government agencies to present documents online, while content developers use FDFMerge everyday for its sophisticated typographic control over form-field contents. It is available in both standard and Lite editions at a license of $1,995 and $995 respectively.

CTO of the company, Mark Gavin said “FDFMerge has been the standard for PDF form filling on the server since 1998, Version 6.0 of this trusted application is more powerful and capable than ever.”

Get more information on the subject at www.appligent.com

Source of Information [http://www.appligent.com/2009-11-24]

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Appligent announces FDFMerge 6.0: Server-based PDF forms management, now powered by Adobe’s PDF Library

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