Re: [PDFdev] Doc conversion

[Max Khesin]

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 ----- From: Wil Paulk To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' 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. -----Original Message----- From: Leonard Rosenthol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 1:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [PDFdev] Doc conversion 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          --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leonard Rosenthol                            <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chief Technical Officer                      <http://www.pdfsages.com> PDF Sages, Inc.                              215-629-3700 (voice)