Barcodes for more than just inventory management & shipping

When someone mentions barcodes or barcode scanning most people think of scanning shipping packages or checking out at the grocery store. They wouldn’t be wrong as those are probably the most common uses for barcodes. We see them in our everyday life. What most people don’t realize is that there are many other uses going on all around us. The Medical Industry If you have ever been in or visited someone in a hospital you…

A Guide to Installing Accusoft SDK Licenses

So you’ve tried out our SDKs and you’re ready to install the license. The problem? You’re not sure how to get started. Accusoft offers a number of different license types based on customer need and environment. The following will show you how to install licenses for both evaluation and deployment depending on your specific needs. The Basics on Activating Your Development License The development machine licensing allows you to develop your applications without receiving evaluation…

PrizmDoc Application Services (PAS) Overview

We’ve received some questions from customers recently about PrizmDoc Application Services, such as: What is PrizmDoc Application Services (PAS)? Why do I need it? How does it benefit me? I’m interested in PrizmDoc Cloud hosted, why do I need to install PAS? Where do I install it? To provide some further clarity, we’re going to answer these questions for you today. What is PAS? So, just what is PAS? PAS is a service that provides…

The Mobile Workforce and Security

With today’s constantly growing technology, everyone is accessible at any given moment. While technology gives our social lives mobility, it also provides an outlet for mobile work. It’s forecasted that mobile workers will make up nearly 75 percent of the U.S. workforce by 2020. Yet 20 percent of employees say their companies’ files are still difficult to access from mobile devices. How can we ease this burden? Experts say the cloud is a perfect way…

Visualizing TeamCity Dependencies with Python

James Waugh, Accusoft Software Engineer In many cases at Accusoft, we are tasked with commanding large TeamCity build chains, sometimes interacting with dozens of build configurations: build tests, run them, and build all their dependencies! Being able to visualize these relationships is a benefit to my team that allows them to discuss these relationships and discover potential issues, so I created a Python 2.7 script to do so. The script is invoked by passing the…