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Image Cleanup
What are the differences between the compressions used in TIFF files?
Question What are the differences between the compressions used in TIFF files? Answer The Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) is widely popular, and is particularly used in document imaging. It can support a number of compression types: Packbits – Created by Apple, this lossless compression type is used for run-length encoding (RLE). Baseline TIFF readers must […]
How to Convert PDF to PDF/A with ImageGear
The industry-wide push to digitize documents and minimize the use of physical paperwork has made PDF one of the most ubiquitous file formats in use today. Business and government organizations use PDFs for a variety of document needs because they can be viewed by so many different applications. When it comes to archiving information, […]
Convert & Compress
How to Flatten PDFs with ImageGear
Although PDFs are one of the most common document types in use today, not every PDF file is identical. A document with multiple layers, annotations, or editable form fields can create significant challenges for an application, especially when it comes to viewing, printing, and OCR reading. One of the most effective ways of dealing with […]
Resizing Pages in a PDF File Using ImageGear .NET
Portable Document Format (PDF) files have become the ubiquitous way to store documents for sharing with a broad audience. While popular, PDF documents have several drawbacks. One large drawback is the fact that PDF documents are intended to be immutable. In other words, PDF documents lack the internal information necessary to reorganize its contents, unlike, […]
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Imaging ‘Quick Start’ Guide
Imaging software is one of the core foundations of Accusoft. However, there can be some complex concepts and terms related to imaging that lead to bad practices or misleading expectations. This guide was created to get you up and running with some common knowledge, as well as give you some terms to research and things […]
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Using ImageGear .NET, how can I detect the bit depth of a PDF so I may better compress my OCR output?
Question I am trying to perform OCR on a PDF created from a scanned document. I need to rasterize the PDF page before importing the page into the recognition engine. When rasterizing the PDF page I want to set the bit depth of the generated page to be equal to the bit depth of the […]
ImageGear: Add PDF Conversion into Your Application
PDFs are everywhere. Vice calls them “the world’s most important file format,” and that’s not far off the mark. The sheer number of documents converted to, from, and often back to PDFs is astounding. The hard truth? They’re also frustrating to work with. Start a Google search with the word “convert” and three of the […]
Document Conversion: Simplifying the Switch with ImageGear
Not all file formats are created equal. Some — like the .docx files produced by the ever-popular Microsoft Word — are ideal for creating and editing text-based documents, while others offer the high resolution necessary for medical images or the security required for legal case files. Challenges emerge, however, when businesses need the same information, […]