Technical FAQs

Question

Does Accusoft Licensing Talk to Accusoft Servers at Runtime?

Answer

No, although if you run an Accusoft licensing utility (as opposed to an OEM key) that will communicate with the Accusoft servers to place a license on your machine. That’s it. When you run your code, network access to Accusoft servers is not necessary.

learning management system LMS

Post-secondary schools look very different this year as colleges and universities embrace both blended learning and online-only approaches to content delivery and engagement. But this isn’t a one-off operation. Even as pandemic pressures ease, the shift to distance learning as the de facto solution for many students won’t disappear.  As a result, it’s critical for schools to develop and deploy learning management systems (LMSs) that both meet current needs and ensure they’re capable of keeping up with educational evolution. But what does this look like in practice? How do developers and team leaders build fully-functional LMS solutions that empower student success without breaking the bank?

 

Learning Management Systems (LMS) Challenges

When schools first made the shift to distance learning directives, speed was of the essence. While students were barred from campus for safety reasons, they’d paid for a full semester of instruction, and schools needed to deliver. As a result, patchwork programs became commonplace. Colleges and universities combined existing education software with video conferencing and collaboration tools to create “good enough” learning models that got them through to summer break. Despite best educational efforts, however, some students still went after schools with lawsuits, alleging that the quality of instruction didn’t align with tuition totals.

So it’s no surprise that as fall semesters kick off, students aren’t willing to put up with learning management systems that barely make the grade. They want full-featured distance learning that helps them engage with instructors and connect with new content no matter how, where, or when they access campus networks. 

As a result, development teams can’t simply correct for current COVID conditions. Instead, they need to create systems that deliver both blended and purely online interactions, and have the power to ensure students that choose to continue with digital-first learning can still stay connected even after returns to campus become commonplace.

 

How to Create a Functional LMS Framework

So what does a fully-functional LMS framework look like in practice? Six features are critical for ongoing success. Let’s explore how these features can enhance your learning management system and set your end-users up for success in the classroom and at home:

 

Diverse Document Viewing

As schools make the shift to distance learning, the ability to view multiple document types is critical for long-term LMS success. From standard Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations to more diverse image types — such as those used in medical educational programming or manufacturing courses — students and instructors need the ability to both send and view diverse document types on-demand. 

While both free and paid solutions for viewing exist outside LMS ecosystems, choosing this route creates two potential problems. Students with diverse technological and economic backgrounds may face challenges in finding and using these tools, and data security may be compromised. This is especially critical as schools handle greater volumes of students’ personal and financial information. If document viewing happens outside internal systems, private concerns become paramount.

 

In-Depth Annotations

With students now submitting assignments and exams via educational software, viewing isn’t enough. Staff also need the ability to annotate assets as they arrive. Here, professors and teaching assistants are best-served by built-in tools that allow them to quickly redline papers or projects, add comments, highlight key passages, and quickly markup documents with specific instructions or corrections. 

Without this ability, staff have two equally unappealing choices. They can either print out, manually correct, and then re-scan documents, or send all comments as separate email attachments. Both are problematic, since they limit the ability of students and teachers to easily interact with the same document.

 

Comprehensive Conversion

File conversion is critical for effective learning management systems (LMSs). Specifically, schools need ways to quickly convert multiple document types into single, searchable PDFs. Not only do PDFs offer the ability to control who can edit, view, or comment on papers or exams, they make it easy for teachers to quickly find specific content. The permissions-based nature of PDFs makes them ideal for post-secondary applications and a must-have for any education software solution. 

 

Cutting-Edge OCR and ICR

Optical character recognition and intelligent character recognition also forms a key part of distance learning directives. With some students still more comfortable with hand-written hard copies and some classes that require students to show specific work, OCR can help bridge the gap between form and function. By integrating tools with the ability to recognize and convert multiple character types and sets, schools are better equipped to deal with any document type. Search is also bolstered by cutting-edge OCR; instead of forcing staff to manually examine documents for key data, OCR empowers digital discovery.

 

Complete Data Capture

Forms are a fundamental part of university and college life — but the myriad of digital documents can quickly overwhelm legacy education software. Integrating tools with robust form-field detection allow schools and staff to streamline the process of complete data capture, both increasing the speed of information processing and reducing the potential for human error.

 

Barcode Benefits

As campuses shift to hybrid learning models, students occupy two worlds, both physical and digital. But this duality introduces complexity when it comes to tracking who’s on campus, when, and why. These are currently key metrics for schools looking to keep students safe in the era of social distancing. 

By deploying full-featured barcode scanning solutions as part of LMS frameworks, colleges and universities can get ahead of this complexity curve. From scanning ID cards to take attendance and track resource use to using barcodes as no-contact purchase points or metric measurements for ongoing analytics, barcode solutions are an integral part of LMS solutions.

 

Automation Advantages

The sheer volume of digital documents now generated and handled by post-secondary schools poses the problem of practicality. Teachers and administrators simply don’t have time to evaluate and enter data at scale and speed while also ensuring accuracy. By automating key processes including document conversion, capture, and character recognition, schools can reduce the time required to process documents, leaving more room for student engagement.

 

Building an LMS Product for Teachers & Students

The bottom line for LMS solutions? If they don’t work for end-users, they won’t work for the broader school system as a whole. Gone are the days of invisible IT infrastructure. Now, students and staff alike are school stakeholders with evolving expectations around technology.

By deploying distance learning solutions that prioritize end-user outcomes with enhanced document viewing, editing, data capture, and automation, developers can create LMS tools capable of both solving immediate issues and offering sustained student success over time. Learn more about these functionality integrations for your learning management system at accusoft.com/products

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As a customer, I want to know the anticipated amount of time that you will continue supporting my specific version so that I can plan our releases ahead of time.

Answer

We currently have our Support Policy located below.
Please see the section named Product Versions

https://www.accusoft.com/company/legal/support-policy/

Next Evolution in Intelligent Contract Automation Redefines How Businesses Create, Manage, Sign, and Track Digital Contracts

TAMPA, Fla. November 29, 2023 – OnTask, a leader in contract automation and eSignature collection, has announced it has rebranded as Docubee. With a redefined product platform and focus on intelligent contract automation, Docubee provides an unparalleled customer experience and streamlines the entire contract lifecycle, including the way businesses create, manage, sign, and track digital contracts.

“The new Docubee brand will allow us to grow with a friendlier and more engaging identity that resonates with our customers and more clearly articulates how we can solve problems for our clients and community,” said Megan Brooks, Chief Operating Officer of Accusoft who oversees product brands such as OnTask, and now Docubee. “The customer-focused personality of Docubee will also play out as we refine our product offerings to further support our clients and improve the user experience.”

Docubee is built on a foundation of innovation. The past six years leading up to the rebrand have centered upon the development of award-winning contract automation solutions that leverage cutting-edge technology such as artificial intelligence (AI), conditional logic, and top-notch security to streamline contract-related tasks.

That foundation, combined with refinements of its multifaceted contract automation solutions, has set the course for Docubee to address customer needs moving forward.

The refined Docubee platform offers five core solutions:

  • Gather: Collecting information to incorporate into contracts and agreements.
  • Generate: Creating contracts swiftly through templates, AI, or by creating and editing from scratch.
  • Share: Routing contracts seamlessly for editing, review, and approval.
  • Sign: Capturing secure, compliant, and legally binding signatures on any device.
  • Integrate: Connecting to the systems teams use daily, or building Docubee’s tools into native applications using APIs.

The brand has seen tremendous growth in recent years with the launch of innovative tools like (AI) document generation, eSignature APIs, and workflow tools, as well as marquee partnerships like with legal case management software leader SmartAdvocate.

“We anticipate extensive growth within these specialized areas,” said Brooks. “The time is right to align with our customers, invest in this platform, form new partnerships, and enhance our service.”

Docubee is a SaaS technology product of Tampa-based software company Accusoft, a technology industry leader with a 30-year track record. Accusoft is recognized for its software technologies that are designed to solve complex workflow challenges, improve productivity, provide actionable data, and deliver results that matter.

For more information about Docubee and to explore the future of contract automation, visit www.Docubee.app.

About Docubee

Docubee, an Accusoft brand, is an intelligent contract automation platform that lets businesses create, manage, sign, and track digital contracts in one secure platform. Docubee powers contracts by enabling users to gather vital customer data, create contracts using tools like generative AI or pre-built templates, and connect pieces of the process with dynamic workflows. Users can integrate Docubee with their existing site or platform via the API or connect to thousands of apps and CRMs using native and webhook-powered integrations. For more information, visit docubee.com

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TAMPA, Florida, February 9, 2022 — Accusoft announces the launch of the Women In Tech Scholarship for 2022. The new scholarship program is aimed at female students passionate about pursuing a career in the Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics fields.

The scholarship is open to a female-identifying undergraduate student pursuing a two or four-year degree and studying STEM. Accusoft will award $3,000 in scholarship to the winner. Apply at https://bold.org/scholarships/women-in-tech-scholarship/

The tech field has been exploding recently and offers lucrative job opportunities. Unfortunately, women are still quite underrepresented in all STEM fields, including tech. Despite making up roughly half of the workforce, less than 27% of tech positions are held by women and only 22% of Fortune 500 tech companies have female leaders.

This scholarship aims to support women pursuing STEM so they can find successful careers and create a more diverse workforce.

“Accusoft is a software company with a mission to make the world in which we live and work a better place,” said Jack Berlin, CEO of Accusoft. “We do this by inventing new ways to help organizations become more efficient and innovative, promoting the continuous improvement of our community, and working to minimize our impact on natural resources. We hope that our new scholarship will not only encourage women to go into the tech field but also to give them the resources to complete their degree.”

To apply, students must write an essay detailing why they are interested in STEM and what their career goals are. Apply at https://bold.org/scholarships/women-in-tech-scholarship/

Applications are due May 29th, 2022. The winner will be announced on June 30, 2022.

About Accusoft

Founded in 1991, Accusoft is a software development company specializing in content processing, conversion, and automation solutions. From out-of-the-box and configurable applications to APIs built for developers, Accusoft software enables users to solve their most complex workflow challenges and gain insights from content in any format, on any device. Backed by 40 patents, the company’s flagship products, including OnTask, PrizmDoc™ Viewer, and ImageGear, are designed to improve productivity, provide actionable data, and deliver results that matter. The Accusoft team is dedicated to continuous innovation through customer-centric product development, new version release, and a passion for understanding industry trends that drive consumer demand. Visit us at www.accusoft.com.

The holiday season has always been a big event for the Accusoft team. It’s a great opportunity to bring the entire team together to celebrate the season and reflect on what we accomplished over the previous year. Since a few of our team members are located outside of Florida, we’ve even arranged to have them fly in for the holidays so they can participate.

Unfortunately, COVID 19 restrictions made it impossible for us to hold an in-person holiday party this year. Rather than simply shrugging our shoulders and cancelling the festivities, we tasked our “Event Ninjas” team with creating a virtual holiday event that could live up to those of previous years.

“Our holiday party is the most popular event we hold during the year,” said HR generalist Alissa Waters. “It was important for us to find a way to keep that tradition alive while still respecting the COVID guidelines we put in place as a company to protect our employees.”

Holiday Planning

The Accusoft Event Ninjas team consists of volunteers from every department within the company and meets once a week to plan various employee activities and events throughout the year. While the team is no stranger to planning a holiday party, this year posed significant challenges.

“The big challenge was figuring out how to incorporate that holiday feeling without meeting in person,” said Dawn Girard, marketing and events coordinator and Event Ninja member. “We didn’t want it to feel like just another virtual meeting.”

After some initial conversations, the team decided to incorporate as many longstanding holiday traditions as possible in order to give the event more familiarity. They couldn’t lean entirely upon precedent, however. This year would be the very first holiday party for a number of employees who joined the Accusoft family in 2020. The Event Ninjas team knew they would have to go the extra mile to make the virtual party as inclusive as possible and be an occasion nobody would want to miss.

Virtual Gift Package

Luckily, there was one tradition that could help get everyone in a festive mood. At previous parties, employees typically received a holiday card and a special ornament to commemorate the year. Since there would be no in-person event this year, they had to be mailed instead. That created an opportunity to get everyone in the holiday spirit by sending a special gift package that included a gift card and a packet of hot chocolate.

Why hot chocolate? The idea was that everyone could make themselves a piping hot cup to enjoy during the holiday party. “We wanted to provide a sense of being together even if we couldn’t be there in-person,” Alissa explained. 

All I Want for Christmas is…an Ugly Sweater(?)

If there’s one thing the Event Ninjas team learned after nearly a year of online meetings, it’s that any successful virtual event begins with a clear plan and a strong theme. The last thing they wanted to see was a bunch of faces staring blankly at their screen like they were waiting to discuss the latest marketing numbers (which, of course, is a very exciting conversation topic). They knew the party would need a compelling visual theme that would encourage everyone to tune in and get involved.

And what could possibly be more compelling than ugly holiday sweaters?

Everyone was encouraged to break out their most ghastly holiday apparel and prepare to cast their virtual votes for which sweater was a true “Nightmare Before Christmas.” The theme had everyone buzzing ahead of the event, which was just what the Event Ninjas team hoped for.

Party Time!

When the big day arrived, nearly the entire company logged into a “crowded” virtual meeting room to celebrate the occasion. Amazingly, the server didn’t immediately crash when confronted with so many ugly holiday sweaters all at one time! After taking in all the sweaters on display, everyone settled in with their hot chocolate to go over some of the highlights from one of the most unusual years in memory.

2020 Milestones

Life didn’t stop completely during the COVID 19 pandemic. Several Accusoft team members experienced personal milestones in 2020, including getting married, becoming a parent, buying a home, or getting a pet. The first portion of the holiday party was dedicated to these moments and to sharing work-related memories.

One of the most noteworthy events for the company was senior software engineer John Reynolds receiving a patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office. It was his third patent awarded during his time at Accusoft, a testament to our continued emphasis on innovation. We couldn’t be happier for John and are eager to see what he has in store next.

“We always want the holiday party to be a celebration of our employees,” Alissa said. “It’s a wonderful opportunity to recognize the people who make Accusoft successful.”

Service Awards

After the team shared their best memories and milestones for the year, Accusoft CEO Jack Berlin took the virtual mic to present a record number of distinguished service awards for the company. This year saw an unprecedented number of work anniversaries, with 22 people celebrating at least five years with Accusoft. 

  • Five Year Anniversary Award: 10 recipients
  • Ten Year Anniversary Award: 6 recipients
  • FIfteen Year Anniversary Award: 3 recipients
  • Twenty Year Anniversary Award: 3 recipients

When discussions about the virtual holiday party began, Alissa knew they had to make this section the centerpiece of the event: “It’s really important that we take the time to focus on these special employees. We want people to know that the company supports them and cares about them.”

And the Winner Is…

One popular portion of the holiday party that made a surprisingly smooth transition to a virtual context was the gift raffle. In years past, of course, the raffle was held in person and usually involved a long process of drawing names and having people walk up to the front of the room to receive their gift.

This year, the raffle turned out to be a fast and furious event thanks to the use of a virtual prize wheel that was preloaded with the names of raffle participants. Rather than dealing with multiple drawings, the Event Ninjas team could move from prize to prize with the click of a button and easily spin the wheel to randomly select a winner. It was fast, easy, and exciting. In fact, the team is even considering using the prize wheel for the next in-person holiday event!

Looking Ahead

After weeks/months of careful planning, our 2020 virtual holiday event went off without a hitch. While we’re looking forward to a return to in-person gatherings at some point in the next year, it’s good to know that our resourceful Event Ninjas team is more than up to the challenge of arranging a successful company-wide virtual event.

More importantly, we’re glad we could provide a platform for recognizing the success of our employees after this challenging year. Even though we were unable to gather in person, we were still able to celebrate everything that the Accusoft family has accomplished together. We’re looking forward to accomplishing even more in 2021.

Emerging legal technology
 

Ongoing Legal Digital Transformation

There are many challenges facing the legal industry that legal tech and new emerging legal technology can help solve, but getting firms to adopt new technology to address these challenges can be a hurdle.  But the most recent challenge within the eDiscovery process is compounding them all. 

The Arrival of New eDiscovery Challenges

The change to a remote/hybrid work environment starting in 2020 during the worldwide COVID pandemic transformed the working world. Even while some companies have returned to the physical workspace, hybrid and fully remote working conditions continue to exist. This means that the collaborative working social platforms and mobile apps we all used to communicate and work with (Teams, Slack, Zoom, Webex, WhatsApp, Google Meet, etc.) are here to stay. 

Regardless of whether employees are in-office, hybrid, or working remotely, using these collaborative working social platforms has become the new norm. This has had profound effects on legal firms performing eDiscovery, most of whom still depend on tools and review processes designed for standard digital documents (such as .doc, .xlxs, .ppt, etc), paper documents, and email. The process of collecting, viewing, searching, redacting, and collaborating across traditional documents and emails has pivoted, and firms are responsible for including the digitized content from these collaborative working social platforms in their eDiscovery.

Compounding the Problem

Processing this new collaborative working social content is a big enough challenge on its own. Unfortunately, many in the legal industry weren’t fully optimized with their digital transformation by adopting previously available legal tech. While some traditional eDiscovery tools have reached maturity and are being utilized by firms, many slower-to-adopt firms are still fighting internally to have legal tech implemented.

How can firms (both early adopters and those still in the digital transformation process) prepare for eDiscovery across these new platforms filled with chat streams, emojis, and video recordings?

Enter Third-Party Software Integrations

Legal tech independent software vendors (ISVs) can be assured that there is technology available that can support their eDiscovery across these collaborative working social platforms. But better still, they don’t need to build a solution from scratch. 

Readily available and easy to adopt, third-party software integrations allow ISVs to add the capabilities they need without disrupting development timelines or building features from scratch. The ability to view, search, annotate, and redact content within documents securely inside an existing application without sacrificing everyday functionality is powerful.

Take on Your eDiscovery Challenges with Accusoft

Accusoft software integrations help legal tech ISVs build a more productive process for case review and eDiscovery. With unique technology that enables easy digital document processing, manual processes like search and redaction are no longer labor-intensive. Accusoft’s digital document lifecycle technologies streamline collaboration and information-sharing while keeping files secure and original metadata intact.

Looking specifically to address the new challenges of processing new collaborative working platform content within your eDiscovery process? Accusoft’s solutions can not only view these new collaborative platform transcript file types (including JSON, VTT, DOCX) but also search, redact, and offer secure collaboration directly inside your application.

To learn more about how Accusoft integrations can support your legal digital transformation and eDiscovery challenges, talk to one of our technology experts today.

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For more information on Accusoft’s software integrations for eDiscovery, case, and practice management applications, visit our Legal industries page.

 

Question

If you have a copy of ImagXpress, there are cases where calling certain functions will trigger the following message:

"This function is available in another edition of ImagXpress v13.00
control"

What could cause this error?

Answer

This error can occur if ImagXpress Standard Edition is licensed on a system, but you’re trying to call operations that are only available in ImagXpress Professional Edition. So, you will need to ensure you’re using the proper license.

This documentation page specifies the functions that are supported for each edition.

This can also occur if you own both Barcode Xpress and ImagXpress Professional. Barcode Xpress includes ImagXpress Standard Edition, so if you install the ImagXpress Professional license first, and then install Barcode Xpress, the included Standard license will overwrite the Professional license. The resolution in this case is to re-install the ImagXpress license to overwrite Standard with Professional.

Docubee

 

It’s never been a more pressing time to go digital. With over half of the world working remotely, we all need an easier way to complete our daily tasks. For some, this presents a unique challenge. Manual processes that require physical paper are now much more difficult in a work-from-home world. Expense report automation is one such challenge.

Finding a way to digitally automate those processes is now key. Especially when it comes to filing expense reports. Accusoft puts employees’ safety first, which is why we implemented new work-from-home protocols. While this comes with its own unique challenges, we are streamlining our processes by using our own technology to automate manual processes, like expense reports.


Digital Process Automation

Docubee is a business process automation tool, powered by Accusoft technology, that enables businesses to streamline a variety of different processes including document sharing, form creation, data collection, and digital signatures.

While Docubee is used for a variety of different processes, Accusoft is now using the tool to help employees during these unprecedented times. Accusoft was able to rethink the way we work, including the way we process expense reports.

Since most employees with a corporate card were always in the office, the process was more of a face-to-face interaction. Employees with a corporate card would print out their credit card statements at the end of each month, gather all receipts and invoices, print them out, write down a reference number for tracking, get their manager’s wet signature, and deliver the package to the accounting department.

“While this process has always worked for Accusoft, the Coronavirus forced us to take a deeper look at how we operate,” said Anthony Sanchez, Chief Financial Officer at Accusoft. “We have a great tool that can help us automate, and we are taking advantage of this opportunity to make the transition.”


A New Process for All

Using Docubee’s document sharing and workflow routing capabilities, employees were able to collect all of their receipts and invoices digitally, attach them to the new workflow, send them to their manager for a digital signature, and route the collection of paperwork to accounting for final approval. 

“Docubee is crucial in times like these,” says Steve Wilson, President of Docubee. “Our technology is powered by Accusoft’s powerful SDKs and APIs. As a business process automation tool, Docubee can help a variety of businesses take their processes digital.”

Accusoft discovered that using Docubee for filing expense reports is the perfect solution for the current circumstances and beyond. It streamlined the process for everyone involved, enabling employees to share statements more efficiently and managers to approve them with ease.

Do you have a manual process that has become more difficult during these work-from-home circumstances? Learn how you can take these processes digital and make your team more productive. Discover what you can do with Docubee.

Upgrading technology software

Periods of great disruption often have a way of presenting opportunities to companies willing to make the right investments in the future. That’s been especially true of the COVID-19 pandemic, which demonstrated that many organizations are, in fact, capable of implementing rapid and sweeping technology changes when they prioritize such initiatives. A survey of executives by McKinsey found that companies implemented significant digital transformations 20 to 25 times faster than expected, largely due to urgency and the removal of longstanding roadblocks. 

By undertaking major technology upgrades now, businesses can position themselves for future success before a new status quo settles in to stifle change. Companies would do well to focus their attention on a few potential areas where their applications could support digital transformation efforts with just a bit of customization.

The Great Remote Migration

The COVID-19 pandemic forced many organizations to rapidly implement the policies and technology necessary to support a remote working environment. Even though the vaccine rollout has made it possible for people to return to the physical office, not every company is rushing to bring everyone back. According to a survey of enterprise CEOs, 68 percent of large organizations are planning to downsize their office footprint and keep at least some portion of their workforce remote.

Although it no longer seems likely that remote work arrangements will completely replace traditional in-person offices, it does appear that the hybrid workforce is gaining popularity as the new normal for organizations. These workplaces will maintain a physical office presence while also incorporating a large number of remote employees. In some cases, these remote workers will be geographically distributed and never set foot in the office. This will allow companies to tap into broader talent pools from around the world. In other cases, employees will be given the option to work remotely under certain conditions, allowing them to decide when they have to actually travel to the office.

Both arrangements will present a number of challenges from a technology and a policy standpoint. In order to create a successful hybrid workplace, companies must continue to make investments in the digital document management technologies that make remote work possible. In addition to managing the myriad security challenges posed by remote employees, they also need to rethink how to handle documents now that passing paper for processing is not as simple as walking that paper document down the hall.  Developers can support the transition by focusing their efforts on building robust applications that can be accessed anywhere and can handle the viewing and processing of digitized documents.

Shifting Customer Expectations

Another major change coming out of the pandemic is the extent to which customers now expect brands to offer a better digital experience with their services. Not only do people use more digital services, but their expectations about how those services should respond to their needs also underwent a significant change. They expect services to be faster and less complicated, and their tolerance for experiences that fall short of those expectations will be lower than ever in the years to come.

Organizations that fail to invest in technology and applications that allow them to better address customer demands will find themselves falling behind in an increasingly competitive landscape. That creates tremendous opportunities for developers to build and market software that does a better job of creating a seamless link between companies and their end-users. That will include user experience features like better document viewing, more accurate data capture, and improved automation tools.

Developers are also under pressure to design innovative applications that can transform business processes and help companies get an edge over their competitors. Sophisticated features powered by machine learning and big data can provide valuable business intelligence and automate low-value tasks to boost productivity. To focus on those capabilities, developers will increasingly rely on third-party SDK and API solutions to deliver core functionality like viewing, conversion, annotation, and compression. By relying on proven, ready-made solutions, they can dedicate more time and resources to innovation.

Rethinking Document Lifecycle Technology

Even before the pandemic, organizations were trying to consolidate and simplify their technology infrastructure to eliminate unnecessary sprawl and software redundancies. Often referred to as application rationalization, this trend will undoubtedly continue as companies look to maximize efficiency to reduce costs while enhancing productivity. One business process that will certainly get a closer look is document lifecycle management.

Traditionally, companies have relied upon multiple software tools to handle the operations associated with each step of the document lifecycle. Common tasks like document scanning, form identification, data extraction, file conversion, viewing, and annotation could all be performed by distinct applications, forcing employees to constantly switch between programs and copy or move files in order to work with them. This process is not only grossly inefficient but also greatly increases the risk of human error or version confusion

Thanks to a new generation of SDK and API tools, developers can easily add new features to their software products that help to streamline and consolidate key elements of digital document lifecycles. From HTML5 viewing capabilities that make it easier to convert and open files within a web browser to more sophisticated data capture and document assembly tools that make true automation possible, these easy-to-implement integrations allow applications to carry out more essential workflow tasks without having to rely on external support.

Upgrading Your Application’s Potential with Accusoft

As organizations seize the opportunity to make essential technology upgrades, developers must be ready to provide them with the innovative applications capable of replacing legacy systems and keeping pace with customer expectations. Building software with the extensive functionality that companies require will continue to be a challenge for software teams facing budget and resource limitations. By turning to a partner with the right software integrations, they can quickly implement a wide spectrum of powerful features while keeping their own development efforts focused on designing best-in-class capabilities and bringing them to market quickly.

Accusoft’s collection of SDK and API solutions allows you to build a variety of powerful processing tools into your applications. Whether you need the conversion, viewing, and annotation features of PrizmDoc Viewer, the robust back-end processing capabilities of ImageGear, or the automated forms processing tools of the FormSuite Collection, our family of software integrations can help your application meet the varied needs of today’s companies. Learn more about our SDK and API solutions and explore how they can make your current project even more impressive.