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A good CAD drawing has everything you need for the transferal of information. Apart from geo‍metry and geo‍metric dimensioning, one finds a multitude of textual in‍formation, like manufacturing instructions, BOMs, … and a lot more. Guideline 4953, “Simplified Drawing” cre‍ates drawings which are easier to maintain. Learn more in this blog post!

As the world moves away from paper and toward digital processes, the need for online security increased along with it. Digital signatures and digital certificates both provide online security. But why they are very different in how and why they are used? We highlight this in this blog post and also answer other questions about this topic!

The ISO standard PDF/A-1 was published in the year of 2005 with the aim of specifically narrowing the func‍tional scope of PDF so that standard-compliant files are suitable for long-term archiving. We are often asked by our customers, “What should I do – PDF/A-1 or PDF/A-2?” “And what are levels all about?” We will an‍swer these questions in this blog post and give you an over‍view of each ISO standard.

Document security and integrity of signed documents is a major concern for manufacturing. What role do digital signatures play in this? How do digital signatures work? When are digital signatures used? What is the difference between electronic signatures and digital signatures? We answer these questions and a few more in this blog post!

Many of our customers are currently considering the use of G Suite from Google – in parallel with or as a replace‍ment for MS Office 365. In this context, the con‍version of G Suite documents into the neutral format PDF and the archive format PDF/A will then also have to be reorga‍nized. Learn more about that in this blog post!

The newest version of PDF Longlife Suite from SEAL Systems makes manual work steps unnecessary when it comes to conversion of nested or embedded files, such as e-mails with attachments or Excel sheets embedded in Word documents, into PDF/A-2. Most conventional tools for creating PDF/A-2 can only create single PDF/A files. Learn more about that!

In this blog post you will read on the one hand that there is now a standard product from SEAL Systems that cap‍tures barcode information directly from TIFF or PDF files. On the other hand, in this blog post you will learn how useful barcode stickers are on documents to be scanned, how document tracing works using barcodes and which barcode types are supported.

Office documents do not always reveal their entire con‍tents immediately: embedded files can be “hidden” in them. When archiving, these must of course be saved as well. In this blog post we will show you how to convert Office documents with embedded files to PDF/A using screenshots.