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Intuitive data extraction from documents: easier than ever with iText pdf2Data 3.1 ian.morris Tue, 03/08/2022 - 17:05 Article type iText news Technical notes ... [More] Introduction We are excited to announce the release of iText pdf2Data 3.1, the latest version of our template-based data extraction solution. iText pdf2Data intelligently recognizes data inside structured and semi-structured PDF documents and extracts them in a structured format. It enables you to define areas and rules in a template that corresponds to the content you want to extract from similar documents. You simply create a template from a sample document with the user-friendly Template Editor and verify the data is recognized and extracted correctly. From then on, all subsequent documents can be processed automatically by the pdf2Data SDK. Intuitive data extraction In recent years the extracting of information from business documents to enable end-to-end business process automation has become increasingly important. Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) is a set of technologies to process documents intelligently, helping businesses to extract and store data as simply and efficiently as possible. PDF is widely used to share and exchange business data, particularly for invoices and other commercial documents. In today's business world it is a common requirement to be able to access and extract the data contained within such documents. However, getting this data in a usable format can prove challenging. If you've ever tried copying a table from a PDF into a spreadsheet, then you'll recognize how frustrating it can be. Traditionally, accessing such data would require someone to transfer data from documents manually. Of course, this takes a lot of time and resources, with the risk of input errors or security issues to consider. What if you could automate this process in a reliable and secure way? Enter iText pdf2Data. Similar to our document generation solution iText DITO, iText pdf2Data allows anyone to leverage iText's powerful PDF capabilities, not just developers. By intelligently extracting data from documents in a smart and structured way, the data can easily be repurposed for analysis, reports, or whatever you want. Once the iText pdf2Data components have been deployed and integrated into an automated document workflow, it's simple to create or refine document templates to recognize and automatically extract data, which can then be easily reused by whoever needs it. Advantages of template-based extraction A number of IDP solutions use artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) to classify and extract data. For reliable results though, extensive training and large data sets are required to learn about the documents to be processed, and documents with content in different languages can be a struggle. On the other hand, template-based solutions can offer significant benefits over AI-based alternatives. With iText pdf2Data you can begin extracting data with a template created from a single example document. It's also easy to modify or adapt an existing template for new document types, and it offers excellent built-in language support. In addition, while AI is particularly useful for handling less structured documents such as emails, for other type of documents it can be like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. For example, structured (official forms, passports, ID cards etc.) and semi-structured documents (invoices, bank statements etc.) can instead be handled more efficiently using a more rules-based approach. Both approaches have their benefits depending on the situation, and we’re holding a webinar on March 24, to explore some real-life use cases, and go into more detail about the advantages and disadvantages of each strategy. There will be two live sessions held, and we’ll make the recording available afterwards to registrants in case you can’t make it. Register for the webinar Register for our webinar "Data extraction from documents: template-based or AI-based" on March 24. CTA template Wide blue Go to the webinar page What’s new? First and foremost, iText pdf2Data is now offered as a standalone solution instead of an iText 7 add-on. Everything you need to begin automated document data extraction is included; the browser-based pdf2Data Editor to create and modify templates, and the pdf2Data engine which parses documents and extracts the data with literally just a few lines of code. The SDK is available as a Java or .NET library for integration into your workflows, or alternatively can be used as a command-line application. That’s not to say your workflows won’t benefit from also using iText 7 Core for pre- or post-processing tasks, or any of the add-ons available in the iText 7 Suite. For example, you could speed up mass-processing of documents by using pdfOptimizer to reduce file size. Alternatively, you might want pdfOCR to turn scanned documents and images into PDFs before the data extraction step. That’s entirely up to you though. Updated Template Editor In addition, we have made some considerable improvements to the pdf2Data Editor to make creating and updating templates even easier. There’s an updated user interface incorporating significant user experience enhancements, including inline help for the data field selectors which define how your data is extracted. In addition, we’ve made deploying the pdf2Data Editor easier by providing it as a Docker container, in addition to the standard Apache Tomcat deployment method. This means you only need Docker installed to deploy the pdf2Data Editor. pdf2Data SDK/CLI In fact, there are no significant changes on the SDK side for this release. It is still available natively as a Java or .NET (C#) library, or as a command-line version if you prefer. It still gives you the same great extraction results as before. That doesn’t mean we’re resting on our laurels though. A ton of features and improvements have been added since the first version was released, and we have big plans for iText pdf2Data's functionality and deployment options as we continue to expand our reach into the world of IDP. Keep watching this space! Want to know more about iText pdf2Data? If you’re not already an iText pdf2Data customer, we recommend exploring all its features and capabilities with a free 30-day online trial! Alternatively, check out the product page for a more detailed overview of how iText pdf2Data works. You can also visit our Knowledge Base where we have tutorials and a breakdown of all available pdf2Data selectors, including tips on how to use them effectively. Finally, don’t miss our live webinar on March 24, to learn more about document data extraction. Register for the webinar Register for our webinar "Data extraction from documents: template-based or AI-based" on March 24. CTA template Wide blue Go to the webinar page Related products iText pdf2Data Main image pdf2Data: Intuitive Data Extraction From Documents Promoted to home page text Read our latest blog: Intuitive data extraction from documents - easier than ever with iText pdf2Data 3.1 [Less]

New release of our PDF library: iText 7 Suite 7.2.1 kenneth.holvoe… Mon, 01/10/2022 - 14:04 Here at iText, we like to make a habit of kickstarting the year with a first quarterly release of the iText 7 Suite. iText 7.2.1 ... [More] is the latest release of your favorite PDF library for Java and .NET, and the first scheduled maintenance release for iText 7.2. We are very excited to announce that pdfOffice, our add-on for high-quality native conversion of MS Office documents, now also supports Excel spreadsheets as input. When it comes to the iText 7 Core library, we’ve continued to improve on its SVG capabilities, as well as a number of other important improvements and bugfixes. As always, we try to synchronize the release with those of our iText 7 add-ons. So, besides iText 7 Core, be sure to also check out the improvements below for pdfHTML, pdfOCR, pdfOffice, pdfOptimizer, pdfRender and RUPS. iText 7 Suite Releases iText Core 7.2.1 This new version of the beating heart of our PDF suite brings further improvements for SVG conversion, supporting default values for the d attribute of the path tag and improving PDF output, which in previous versions could be rendered incorrectly by some PDF viewers such as Safari and View (macOS) and Documents (iOS). Please see the release-related examples to get to get a full insight on these changes. As for PDF merging functionality, we should note it has more intelligent outline handling, which is no longer as strict and can fix some syntax mistakes in the Outlines hierarchy. For instance, absence of the parent attribute which is mandatory in the PDF specification is not an issue anymore. As for the rest of the changes, you can expect a number of bugfixes, plus some significant improvements to the codebase. we've provided some examples to give you more insight and demonstrate use cases. pdfHTML 4.0.1 The pdfHTML 4.0.1 release is the first release of our HTML to PDF creation add-on in 2022. This release of our add-on for PDF creation from HTML templates of brings better processing of SVG format, thanks to improvements to the SVG module in the iText 7 Core library. SVG support remains a very important focus for us, as we are moving toward comprehensive support of the SVG standard in the iText7 Suite. In this release we have also incapsulated all resource handling functionality into the ResourceRetriever class. Now you can be sure that full control of Outbound connections is in your hands. pdfOCR 2.0.1 iText pdfOCR offers Optical Character Recognition functionality to convert your scanned documents, PDFs and images into fully ISO-compliant PDF or PDF/A-3u that have accessible text. This maintenance release updates the underlying glue (tess4j) with Tesseract to 4.5.5. There is not much to write home about, but we want to keep track of these underlying version updates so we are ready for when bigger changes come about. pdfOffice 2.0.1 Although only a minor release, pdfOffice 2.0.1 brings some significant new functionality. It raises the bar for Office document conversion to a new level by introducing support for Excel spreadsheets to go along with the existing Word and PowerPoint conversion. An example is worth a thousand words, so make sure that you check out our new Excel to PDF example. As for the rest of the changes, expect a few bug fixes and a reduction in size for the resulting PDF documents. pdfOptimizer 2.0.1 pdfOptimizer allows developers to easily optimize PDFs with fine-grained control over various optimization options. The pdfOptimizer 2.0.1 release includes a small yet important improvement. It will now notify you in cases when processing can break the PDF/A-1 compatibility. In the future, we will extend the PDF/A-1 standard support in pdfOptimizer. Of course, we will keep you updated as and when this occurs. pdfRender 2.0.1 For the latest release of the iText add-on that lets you render PDF to images, we have updated to a new version of Jpedal which brings a number of bug fixes. In particular, Unicode text rendering has been improved in this release, and an issue with inline image rendering related to a combination of full and shorthand property names has been resolved, giving you a better PDF rendering experience. The latter improvement was made in response to the discovery made by DARPA’s SafeDocs researchers as reported in the PDF Association’s blog on the topic. RUPS 7.2.1 We always release our PDF debugging tool RUPS together with iText 7 Core, as it is one of the most important dependencies (so all the goodies in Core also make their way into RUPS). Happy debugging! Shout-out to our contributors We'd like to thank the iText community for its contributions, specifically; realityone, with a really important and impactful fix for incompatibility with PDF standards in our codebase and kohler, whose PR helped us a lot in our efforts to process PDF outlines better. We are happy to see that after 21 years there is still so much interest in improving the iText library. We always welcome contributions and pull requests from the community. If you have any, let us know. More information on the iText Knowledge Base Head over to our Knowledge Base for the full iText 7.2.1 release notes, and find more information, installation guides, examples, FAQs, and more! Tags iText 7 release Article type Technical notes Related products iText 7 Suite iText 7 Core pdfOptimizer pdfOCR pdfOffice pdfRender RUPS Main image iText Suite 7.2.1 Promoted to home page text Discover the new release of our PDF library: iText 7 Suite 7.2.1 - Including Excel to PDF support in pdfOffice [Less]

New release of our PDF library: iText 7 Suite 7.2.1 kenneth.holvoe… Mon, 01/10/2022 - 14:04 Here at iText, we like to make a habit of kickstarting the year with a first quarterly release of the iText 7 Suite. iText 7.2.1 ... [More] is the latest release of your favorite PDF library for Java and .NET, and the first scheduled maintenance release for iText 7.2. We are very excited to announce that pdfOffice, our add-on for high-quality native conversion of MS Office documents, now also supports Excel spreadsheets as input. When it comes to the iText 7 Core library, we’ve continued to improve on its SVG capabilities, as well as a number of other important improvements and bugfixes. As always, we try to synchronize the release with those of our iText 7 add-ons. So, besides iText 7 Core, be sure to also check out the improvements below for pdfHTML, pdfOCR, pdfOffice, pdfOptimizer, pdfRender and RUPS. iText 7 Suite Releases iText Core 7.2.1 This new version of the beating heart of our PDF suite brings further improvements for SVG conversion, supporting default values for the d attribute of the path tag and improving PDF output, which in previous versions could be rendered incorrectly by some PDF viewers such as Safari and View (macOS) and Documents (iOS). Please see the release-related examples to get to get a full insight on these changes. As for PDF merging functionality, we should note it has more intelligent outline handling, which is no longer as strict and can fix some syntax mistakes in the Outlines hierarchy. For instance, absence of the parent attribute which is mandatory in the PDF specification is not an issue anymore. As for the rest of the changes, you can expect a number of bugfixes, plus some significant improvements to the codebase. we've provided some examples to give you more insight and demonstrate use cases. pdfHTML 4.0.1 The pdfHTML 4.0.1 release is the first release of our HTML to PDF creation add-on in 2022. This release of our add-on for PDF creation from HTML templates of brings better processing of SVG format, thanks to improvements to the SVG module in the iText 7 Core library. SVG support remains a very important focus for us, as we are moving toward comprehensive support of the SVG standard in the iText7 Suite. In this release we have also incapsulated all resource handling functionality into the ResourceRetriever class. Now you can be sure that full control of Outbound connections is in your hands. pdfOCR 2.0.1 iText pdfOCR offers Optical Character Recognition functionality to convert your scanned documents, PDFs and images into fully ISO-compliant PDF or PDF/A-3u that have accessible text. This maintenance release updates the underlying glue (tess4j) with Tesseract to 4.5.5. There is not much to write home about, but we want to keep track of these underlying version updates so we are ready for when bigger changes come about. pdfOffice 2.0.1 Although only a minor release, pdfOffice 2.0.1 brings some significant new functionality. It raises the bar for Office document conversion to a new level by introducing support for Excel spreadsheets to go along with the existing Word and PowerPoint conversion. An example is worth a thousand words, so make sure that you check out our new Excel to PDF example. As for the rest of the changes, expect a few bug fixes and a reduction in size for the resulting PDF documents. pdfOptimizer 2.0.1 pdfOptimizer allows developers to easily optimize PDFs with fine-grained control over various optimization options. The pdfOptimizer 2.0.1 release includes a small yet important improvement. It will now notify you in cases when processing can break the PDF/A-1 compatibility. In the future, we will extend the PDF/A-1 standard support in pdfOptimizer. Of course, we will keep you updated as and when this occurs. pdfRender 2.0.1 For the latest release of the iText add-on that lets you render PDF to images, we have updated to a new version of Jpedal which brings a number of bug fixes. In particular, Unicode text rendering has been improved in this release, and an issue with inline image rendering related to a combination of full and shorthand property names has been resolved, giving you a better PDF rendering experience. The latter improvement was made in response to the discovery made by DARPA’s SafeDocs researchers as reported in the PDF Association’s blog on the topic. RUPS 7.2.1 We always release our PDF debugging tool RUPS together with iText 7 Core, as it is one of the most important dependencies (so all the goodies in Core also make their way into RUPS). Happy debugging! Shout-out to our contributors We'd like to thank the iText community for its contributions, specifically; realityone, with a really important and impactful fix for incompatibility with PDF standards in our codebase and kohler, whose PR helped us a lot in our efforts to process PDF outlines better. We are happy to see that after 21 years there is still so much interest in improving the iText library. We always welcome contributions and pull requests from the community. If you have any, let us know. More information on the iText Knowledge Base Head over to our Knowledge Base for the full iText 7.2.1 release notes, and find more information, installation guides, examples, FAQs, and more! Tags iText 7 release Article type Technical notes Related products iText 7 Suite iText 7 Core pdfOptimizer pdfOCR pdfOffice pdfRender RUPS Main image iText Suite 7.2.1 Promoted to home page text Discover the new release of our PDF library: iText 7 Suite 7.2.1 - Including Excel to PDF support in pdfOffice [Less]

New release of our PDF library: iText 7 Suite 7.2.1 kenneth.holvoe… Mon, 01/10/2022 - 14:04 Here at iText, we like to make a habit of kickstarting the year with a first quarterly release of the iText 7 Suite. iText 7.2.1 ... [More] is the latest release of your favorite PDF library for Java and .NET, and the first scheduled maintenance release for iText 7.2. We are very excited to announce that pdfOffice, our add-on for high-quality native conversion of MS Office documents, now also supports Excel spreadsheets as input. When it comes to the iText 7 Core library, we’ve continued to improve on its SVG capabilities, as well as a number of other important improvements and bugfixes. As always, we try to synchronize the release with those of our iText 7 add-ons. So, besides iText 7 Core, be sure to also check out the improvements below for pdfHTML, pdfOCR, pdfOffice, pdfOptimizer, pdfRender and RUPS. iText 7 Suite Releases iText Core 7.2.1 This new version of the beating heart of our PDF suite brings further improvements for SVG conversion, supporting default values for the d attribute of the path tag and improving PDF output, which in previous versions could be rendered incorrectly by some PDF viewers such as Safari and View (macOS) and Documents (iOS). Please see the release-related examples to get to get a full insight on these changes. As for PDF merging functionality, we should note it has more intelligent outline handling, which is no longer as strict and can fix some syntax mistakes in the Outlines hierarchy. For instance, absence of the parent attribute which is mandatory in the PDF specification is not an issue anymore. As for the rest of the changes, you can expect a number of bugfixes, plus some significant improvements to the codebase. we've provided some examples to give you more insight and demonstrate use cases. pdfHTML 4.0.1 The pdfHTML 4.0.1 release is the first release of our HTML to PDF creation add-on in 2022. This release of our add-on for PDF creation from HTML templates of brings better processing of SVG format, thanks to improvements to the SVG module in the iText 7 Core library. SVG support remains a very important focus for us, as we are moving toward comprehensive support of the SVG standard in the iText7 Suite. In this release we have also incapsulated all resource handling functionality into the ResourceRetriever class. Now you can be sure that full control of Outbound connections is in your hands. pdfOCR 2.0.1 iText pdfOCR offers Optical Character Recognition functionality to convert your scanned documents, PDFs and images into fully ISO-compliant PDF or PDF/A-3u that have accessible text. This maintenance release updates the underlying glue (tess4j) with Tesseract to 4.5.5. There is not much to write home about, but we want to keep track of these underlying version updates so we are ready for when bigger changes come about. pdfOffice 2.0.1 Although only a minor release, pdfOffice 2.0.1 brings some significant new functionality. It raises the bar for Office document conversion to a new level by introducing support for Excel spreadsheets to go along with the existing Word and PowerPoint conversion. An example is worth a thousand words, so make sure that you check out our new Excel to PDF example. As for the rest of the changes, expect a few bug fixes and a reduction in size for the resulting PDF documents. pdfOptimizer 2.0.1 pdfOptimizer allows developers to easily optimize PDFs with fine-grained control over various optimization options. The pdfOptimizer 2.0.1 release includes a small yet important improvement. It will now notify you in cases when processing can break the PDF/A-1 compatibility. In the future, we will extend the PDF/A-1 standard support in pdfOptimizer. Of course, we will keep you updated as and when this occurs. pdfRender 2.0.1 For the latest release of the iText add-on that lets you render PDF to images, we have updated to a new version of Jpedal which brings a number of bug fixes. In particular, Unicode text rendering has been improved in this release, and an issue with inline image rendering related to a combination of full and shorthand property names has been resolved, giving you a better PDF rendering experience. The latter improvement was made in response to the discovery made by DARPA’s SafeDocs researchers as reported in the PDF Association’s blog on the topic. RUPS 7.2.1 We always release our PDF debugging tool RUPS together with iText 7 Core, as it is one of the most important dependencies (so all the goodies in Core also make their way into RUPS). Happy debugging! Shout-out to our contributors We'd like to thank the iText community for its contributions, specifically; realityone, with a really important and impactful fix for incompatibility with PDF standards in our codebase and kohler, whose PR helped us a lot in our efforts to process PDF outlines better. We are happy to see that after 21 years there is still so much interest in improving the iText library. We always welcome contributions and pull requests from the community. If you have any, let us know. More information on the iText Knowledge Base Head over to our Knowledge Base for the full iText 7.2.1 release notes, and find more information, installation guides, examples, FAQs, and more! Tags iText 7 release Article type Technical notes Related products iText 7 Suite iText 7 Core pdfOptimizer pdfOCR pdfOffice pdfRender RUPS Main image iText Suite 7.2.1 Promoted to home page text Discover the new release of our PDF library: iText 7 Suite 7.2.1 - Including Excel to PDF support in pdfOffice [Less]

New release of our PDF library: iText 7 Suite 7.2.1 kenneth.holvoe… Mon, 01/10/2022 - 14:04 Here at iText, we like to make a habit of kickstarting the year with a first quarterly release of the iText 7 Suite. iText 7.2.1 ... [More] is the latest release of your favorite PDF library for Java and .NET, and the first scheduled maintenance release for iText 7.2. We are very excited to announce that pdfOffice, our add-on for high-quality native conversion of MS Office documents, now also supports Excel spreadsheets as input. When it comes to the iText 7 Core library, we’ve continued to improve on its SVG capabilities, as well as a number of other important improvements and bugfixes. As always, we try to synchronize the release with those of our iText 7 add-ons. So, besides iText 7 Core, be sure to also check out the improvements below for pdfHTML, pdfOCR, pdfOffice, pdfOptimizer, pdfRender and RUPS. iText 7 Suite Releases iText Core 7.2.1 This new version of the beating heart of our PDF suite brings further improvements for SVG conversion, supporting default values for the d attribute of the path tag and improving PDF output, which in previous versions could be rendered incorrectly by some PDF viewers such as Safari and View (macOS) and Documents (iOS). Please see the release-related examples to get to get a full insight on these changes. As for PDF merging functionality, we should note it has more intelligent outline handling, which is no longer as strict and can fix some syntax mistakes in the Outlines hierarchy. For instance, absence of the parent attribute which is mandatory in the PDF specification is not an issue anymore. As for the rest of the changes, you can expect a number of bugfixes, plus some significant improvements to the codebase. we've provided some examples to give you more insight and demonstrate use cases. pdfHTML 4.0.1 The pdfHTML 4.0.1 release is the first release of our HTML to PDF creation add-on in 2022. This release of our add-on for PDF creation from HTML templates of brings better processing of SVG format, thanks to improvements to the SVG module in the iText 7 Core library. SVG support remains a very important focus for us, as we are moving toward comprehensive support of the SVG standard in the iText7 Suite. In this release we have also incapsulated all resource handling functionality into the ResourceRetriever class. Now you can be sure that full control of Outbound connections is in your hands. pdfOCR 2.0.1 iText pdfOCR offers Optical Character Recognition functionality to convert your scanned documents, PDFs and images into fully ISO-compliant PDF or PDF/A-3u that have accessible text. This maintenance release updates the underlying glue (tess4j) with Tesseract to 4.5.5. There is not much to write home about, but we want to keep track of these underlying version updates so we are ready for when bigger changes come about. pdfOffice 2.0.1 Although only a minor release, pdfOffice 2.0.1 brings some significant new functionality. It raises the bar for Office document conversion to a new level by introducing support for Excel spreadsheets to go along with the existing Word and PowerPoint conversion. An example is worth a thousand words, so make sure that you check out our new Excel to PDF example. As for the rest of the changes, expect a few bug fixes and a reduction in size for the resulting PDF documents. pdfOptimizer 2.0.1 pdfOptimizer allows developers to easily optimize PDFs with fine-grained control over various optimization options. The pdfOptimizer 2.0.1 release includes a small yet important improvement. It will now notify you in cases when processing can break the PDF/A-1 compatibility. In the future, we will extend the PDF/A-1 standard support in pdfOptimizer. Of course, we will keep you updated as and when this occurs. pdfRender 2.0.1 For the latest release of the iText add-on that lets you render PDF to images, we have updated to a new version of Jpedal which brings a number of bug fixes. In particular, Unicode text rendering has been improved in this release, and an issue with inline image rendering related to a combination of full and shorthand property names has been resolved, giving you a better PDF rendering experience. The latter improvement was made in response to the discovery made by DARPA’s SafeDocs researchers as reported in the PDF Association’s blog on the topic. RUPS 7.2.1 We always release our PDF debugging tool RUPS together with iText 7 Core, as it is one of the most important dependencies (so all the goodies in Core also make their way into RUPS). Happy debugging! Shout-out to our contributors We'd like to thank the iText community for its contributions, specifically; realityone, with a really important and impactful fix for incompatibility with PDF standards in our codebase and kohler, whose PR helped us a lot in our efforts to process PDF outlines better. We are happy to see that after 21 years there is still so much interest in improving the iText library. We always welcome contributions and pull requests from the community. If you have any, let us know. More information on the iText Knowledge Base Head over to our Knowledge Base for the full iText 7.2.1 release notes, and find more information, installation guides, examples, FAQs, and more! Tags iText 7 release Article type Technical notes Related products iText 7 Suite iText 7 Core pdfOptimizer pdfOCR pdfOffice pdfRender RUPS Main image iText Suite 7.2.1 Promoted to home page text Discover the new release of our PDF library: iText 7 Suite 7.2.1 - Including Excel to PDF support in pdfOffice [Less]

Key takeaways from the iText Fireside Chat Episode 1 julie.kluyskens Fri, 01/07/2022 - 13:07 Article type iText news CTA ... [More] template Wide gray Watch the recording iText Software officially kicked off its inaugural episode of the Fireside Chat series of roundtable discussions. In Episode 1, iText hosted the discussion on meeting the growing demand in e-Signatures and Document Security as seen through the lens of C-level speakers from high-profile organizations.  This topic is relevant in today’s digital landscape and is resonating with several enterprise companies across sectors today. The thought leadership technology expertise derived from their discussion translates on a global scale across professional multi-industry audiences.  The senior executives included:  Raf Hens (CTO, iText Software) Tage Borg (CTO, Scrive) Jay Schiavo (VP Product and Markets - Certificate Solutions, Entrust) Tomás García- Merás Capote (Client Account Leadership Manager, Accenture) Read on for key takeaways and highlights from their discussion: During the introduction, moderator, Colin Steele, Head of Content, York IE, discussed the statistics mentioned in this Finances Online article, which points to the enormous growth in the global electronic and digital signature market. From there, the panel shared their views and experiences on signing digital documents, related document security concerns, such as secure redaction, but also where they expect technology to take us in the future.  The preference for online documentation processes is growing rapidly, and the e-signature method is highly preferred over its counterpart – the physical document. This is making government agencies and institutions encourage the adoption of digital authentication technologies that can certify these agreements with higher workflow efficiency and security. “With different requirements made for digital documents as opposed to physical ones, I call that the ‘Tesla problem’, where you can’t trust the self-driving car if it’s as good as a human because you’re switching from one technology to a different kind. You need it to be one thousand times better.” Tage Borg, CTO - Scrive The Pandemic Pressure  The days of downloading a document off the internet, printing, signing, and scanning it back to the sender are fading. The demand for a more digital process came to the forefront when the global pandemic shined a light on the time, resources, and energy spent on handling physical documents. Solutions were needed more than ever to help companies and consumers get the deals done and contracts signed while working remote. “Although the EU is much further along, one challenge in the U.S. still remains – the concept of identity verification with e-signatures … As customers and businesses move to more electronic signatures, there is a need for more advanced processes to help with the identity trust issue." Jay Schiavo, VP Product and Markets, Certificate Solutions - Entrust While COVID-19 was a catalyst for the transformation and digitization of documents, it also pushed security aside, forcing our hands to trust e-signatures more. With this trust came a strengthened relationship between companies and individuals, and the panel was in full agreement that this digital transformation is here to stay. E-signatures are not just patchwork solutions to a temporary problem, but a permanent fixture in digital operations across industries. Deals that used to be closed in four weeks are being done in a matter of hours with the elimination of burdensome paper stacks.  Overview of the panel members during Roundtable Series Episode 1: Examining Security and Digital Document Signing Contending with e-Signature Standards Consumers perform e-signatures in different ways. A signer can sign their name into a highlighted area, paste a scanned signature, check an "I accept" box, or confirm initials as proof of signature. A reliable electronic signature software makes this user experience secure, legally acceptable, and smooth.  However, there are laws governing digital signatures with certifications or standards vendors must follow. It’s becoming increasingly more important to understand the parameters around those standards and deal with them across industries and geographies.  There are several varying standards, compliance items, and requirements vendors must follow to deal with everything from key storage, to individual or company authentication. One of the biggest drivers in the industry is the electronic identification and trust services (eIDAS) regulations — everything from consumer to business to the vendors involved in delivering the solutions. “Being a technology provider, we focus on technical standards in the document workflow ecosystem — compatibility and interoperability are very important for us. That’s where we’re actively involved in standardization efforts with PDF association but also through ISO committees.” Raf Hens, CTO - iText Software The highest level of standard needed to comply with is contract law. It’s not encoded internationally, but all countries have approximately the same rules in order to do business across borders. Standardization is a slow process but is important for the future success of digital documents.  “From a technical point of view, we need some kind of international infrastructure for easing the electronic signature process for citizens, and also allow some sort of advanced features for long-term validation, such as timestamps.” Tomás Garciá - Merás Capote, Client Account Leadership Manager - Accenture CTA template Wide gray Get to know our speakers Looking to the Future The heightened focus on identity verification will become widespread. Today, there are tools out there to authenticate the consumer as they’re doing their digital signature, but in some cases it’s manual and tedious. The panel believes identifying an individual as they are about to sign will become easier and more automated. Digital ID wallets taking place in Europe and trickling throughout the U.S. (electronic drivers licenses) will help drive the innovation. “On the technical side, there will be much more moving to the cloud with better access to signing keys that don’t disrupt the signing process… Low risk transactions (think Accept Terms and Conditions) will become easier to perform and legislatures will move more documents into categories without a need for an advanced qualified signature and ID verification. They’ll become more commoditized and cheaper in the long run.” Jay Schiavo, VP Product and Markets, Certificate Solutions - Entrust On the other end are high risk transactions (car leasing, property purchase). Those requirements will increase with more security needs in place.  We will also see a form of self sovereign identity transaction as Digital Signatures move on to Blockchain Technology. With Blockchain, you increase the security of your invoices, documents or tenders by storing the digital signatures in a Blockchain and not in the PDF documents themselves. “Just as 20 years ago we would have never imagined getting on a plan with a QR code instead of a physical boarding pass, the innovation in the future will be about acknowledging, signing, and accepting the data behind the message and visual representation of the document in a digital environment.” Raf Hens, CTO - iText Software Curious in the entire webinar? You can access it for free! CTA template Wide orange Get to know our speakers Subscribe for iText updates Main image teaser FireSide Promoted to home page text Get key takeaways from iText's Fireside Chat #1: "Examining Security and Digital Document Signing". With Accenture, Scrive and Entrust. [Less]

Key takeaways from the iText Fireside Chat Episode 1 julie.kluyskens Fri, 01/07/2022 - 13:07 Article type iText news CTA ... [More] template Wide gray Watch the recording iText Software officially kicked off its inaugural episode of the Fireside Chat series of roundtable discussions late 2021. In Episode 1, iText hosted the discussion on meeting the growing demand in e-Signatures and Document Security as seen through the lens of C-level speakers from high-profile organizations.  This topic is relevant in today’s digital landscape and is resonating with several enterprise companies across sectors today. The thought leadership technology expertise derived from their discussion translates on a global scale across professional multi-industry audiences.  The senior executives included:  Raf Hens (CTO, iText Software) Tage Borg (CTO, Scrive) Jay Schiavo (VP Product and Markets - Certificate Solutions, Entrust) Tomás García- Merás Capote (Client Account Leadership Manager, Accenture) Read on for key takeaways and highlights from their discussion: During the introduction, moderator, Colin Steele, Head of Content, York IE, discussed the statistics mentioned in this Finances Online article, which points to the enormous growth in the global electronic and digital signature market. From there, the panel shared their views and experiences on signing digital documents, related document security concerns, such as secure redaction, but also where they expect technology to take us in the future.  The preference for online documentation processes is growing rapidly, and the e-signature method is highly preferred over its counterpart – the physical document. This is making government agencies and institutions encourage the adoption of digital authentication technologies that can certify these agreements with higher workflow efficiency and security. “With different requirements made for digital documents as opposed to physical ones, I call that the ‘Tesla problem’, where you can’t trust the self-driving car if it’s as good as a human because you’re switching from one technology to a different kind. You need it to be one thousand times better.” Tage Borg, CTO - Scrive The Pandemic Pressure  The days of downloading a document off the internet, printing, signing, and scanning it back to the sender are fading. The demand for a more digital process came to the forefront when the global pandemic shined a light on the time, resources, and energy spent on handling physical documents. Solutions were needed more than ever to help companies and consumers get the deals done and contracts signed while working remote. “Although the EU is much further along, one challenge in the U.S. still remains – the concept of identity verification with e-signatures … As customers and businesses move to more electronic signatures, there is a need for more advanced processes to help with the identity trust issue." Jay Schiavo, VP Product and Markets, Certificate Solutions - Entrust While COVID-19 was a catalyst for the transformation and digitization of documents, it also pushed security aside, forcing our hands to trust e-signatures more. With this trust came a strengthened relationship between companies and individuals, and the panel was in full agreement that this digital transformation is here to stay. E-signatures are not just patchwork solutions to a temporary problem, but a permanent fixture in digital operations across industries. Deals that used to be closed in four weeks are being done in a matter of hours with the elimination of burdensome paper stacks.  Overview of the panel members during Roundtable Series Episode 1: Examining Security and Digital Document Signing Contending with e-Signature Standards Consumers perform e-signatures in different ways. A signer can sign their name into a highlighted area, paste a scanned signature, check an "I accept" box, or confirm initials as proof of signature. A reliable electronic signature software makes this user experience secure, legally acceptable, and smooth.  However, there are laws governing digital signatures with certifications or standards vendors must follow. It’s becoming increasingly more important to understand the parameters around those standards and deal with them across industries and geographies.  There are several varying standards, compliance items, and requirements vendors must follow to deal with everything from key storage, to individual or company authentication. One of the biggest drivers in the industry is the electronic identification and trust services (eIDAS) regulations — everything from consumer to business to the vendors involved in delivering the solutions. “Being a technology provider, we focus on technical standards in the document workflow ecosystem — compatibility and interoperability are very important for us. That’s where we’re actively involved in standardization efforts with PDF association but also through ISO committees.” Raf Hens, CTO - iText Software The highest level of standard needed to comply with is contract law. It’s not encoded internationally, but all countries have approximately the same rules in order to do business across borders. Standardization is a slow process but is important for the future success of digital documents.  “From a technical point of view, we need some kind of international infrastructure for easing the electronic signature process for citizens, and also allow some sort of advanced features for long-term validation, such as timestamps.” Tomás Garciá - Merás Capote, Client Account Leadership Manager - Accenture CTA template Wide gray Get to know our speakers Looking to the Future The heightened focus on identity verification will become widespread. Today, there are tools out there to authenticate the consumer as they’re doing their digital signature, but in some cases it’s manual and tedious. The panel believes identifying an individual as they are about to sign will become easier and more automated. Digital ID wallets taking place in Europe and trickling throughout the U.S. (electronic drivers licenses) will help drive the innovation. “On the technical side, there will be much more moving to the cloud with better access to signing keys that don’t disrupt the signing process… Low risk transactions (think Accept Terms and Conditions) will become easier to perform and legislatures will move more documents into categories without a need for an advanced qualified signature and ID verification. They’ll become more commoditized and cheaper in the long run.” Jay Schiavo, VP Product and Markets, Certificate Solutions - Entrust On the other end are high risk transactions (car leasing, property purchase). Those requirements will increase with more security needs in place.  We will also see a form of self sovereign identity transaction as Digital Signatures move on to Blockchain Technology. With Blockchain, you increase the security of your invoices, documents or tenders by storing the digital signatures in a Blockchain and not in the PDF documents themselves. “Just as 20 years ago we would have never imagined getting on a plan with a QR code instead of a physical boarding pass, the innovation in the future will be about acknowledging, signing, and accepting the data behind the message and visual representation of the document in a digital environment.” Raf Hens, CTO - iText Software Curious in the entire webinar? You can access it for free! CTA template Wide orange Get to know our speakers Subscribe for iText updates Main image teaser FireSide Promoted to home page text Get key takeaways from iText's Fireside Chat #1: "Examining Security and Digital Document Signing". With Accenture, Scrive and Entrust. [Less]

Key takeaways from the iText Fireside Chat Episode 1 julie.kluyskens Fri, 01/07/2022 - 13:07 Article type iText news CTA ... [More] template Wide gray Watch the recording iText Software officially kicked off its inaugural episode of the Fireside Chat series of roundtable discussions late 2021. In Episode 1, iText hosted the discussion on meeting the growing demand in e-Signatures and Document Security as seen through the lens of C-level speakers from high-profile organizations.  This topic is relevant in today’s digital landscape and is resonating with several enterprise companies across sectors today. The thought leadership technology expertise derived from their discussion translates on a global scale across professional multi-industry audiences.  The senior executives included:  Raf Hens (CTO, iText Software) Tage Borg (CTO, Scrive) Jay Schiavo (VP Product and Markets - Certificate Solutions, Entrust) Tomás García- Merás Capote (Client Account Leadership Manager, Accenture) Read on for key takeaways and highlights from their discussion: During the introduction, moderator, Colin Steele, Head of Content, York IE, discussed the statistics mentioned in this Finances Online article, which points to the enormous growth in the global electronic and digital signature market. From there, the panel shared their views and experiences on signing digital documents, related document security concerns, such as secure redaction, but also where they expect technology to take us in the future.  The preference for online documentation processes is growing rapidly, and the e-signature method is highly preferred over its counterpart – the physical document. This is making government agencies and institutions encourage the adoption of digital authentication technologies that can certify these agreements with higher workflow efficiency and security. “With different requirements made for digital documents as opposed to physical ones, I call that the ‘Tesla problem’, where you can’t trust the self-driving car if it’s as good as a human because you’re switching from one technology to a different kind. You need it to be one thousand times better.” Tage Borg, CTO - Scrive The Pandemic Pressure  The days of downloading a document off the internet, printing, signing, and scanning it back to the sender are fading. The demand for a more digital process came to the forefront when the global pandemic shined a light on the time, resources, and energy spent on handling physical documents. Solutions were needed more than ever to help companies and consumers get the deals done and contracts signed while working remote. “Although the EU is much further along, one challenge in the U.S. still remains – the concept of identity verification with e-signatures … As customers and businesses move to more electronic signatures, there is a need for more advanced processes to help with the identity trust issue." Jay Schiavo, VP Product and Markets, Certificate Solutions - Entrust While COVID-19 was a catalyst for the transformation and digitization of documents, it also pushed security aside, forcing our hands to trust e-signatures more. With this trust came a strengthened relationship between companies and individuals, and the panel was in full agreement that this digital transformation is here to stay. E-signatures are not just patchwork solutions to a temporary problem, but a permanent fixture in digital operations across industries. Deals that used to be closed in four weeks are being done in a matter of hours with the elimination of burdensome paper stacks.  Overview of the panel members during Roundtable Series Episode 1: Examining Security and Digital Document Signing Contending with e-Signature Standards Consumers perform e-signatures in different ways. A signer can sign their name into a highlighted area, paste a scanned signature, check an "I accept" box, or confirm initials as proof of signature. A reliable electronic signature software makes this user experience secure, legally acceptable, and smooth.  However, there are laws governing digital signatures with certifications or standards vendors must follow. It’s becoming increasingly more important to understand the parameters around those standards and deal with them across industries and geographies.  There are several varying standards, compliance items, and requirements vendors must follow to deal with everything from key storage, to individual or company authentication. One of the biggest drivers in the industry is the electronic identification and trust services (eIDAS) regulations — everything from consumer to business to the vendors involved in delivering the solutions. “Being a technology provider, we focus on technical standards in the document workflow ecosystem — compatibility and interoperability are very important for us. That’s where we’re actively involved in standardization efforts with PDF association but also through ISO committees.” Raf Hens, CTO - iText Software The highest level of standard needed to comply with is contract law. It’s not encoded internationally, but all countries have approximately the same rules in order to do business across borders. Standardization is a slow process but is important for the future success of digital documents.  “From a technical point of view, we need some kind of international infrastructure for easing the electronic signature process for citizens, and also allow some sort of advanced features for long-term validation, such as timestamps.” Tomás Garciá - Merás Capote, Client Account Leadership Manager - Accenture CTA template Wide gray Get to know our speakers Looking to the Future The heightened focus on identity verification will become widespread. Today, there are tools out there to authenticate the consumer as they’re doing their digital signature, but in some cases it’s manual and tedious. The panel believes identifying an individual as they are about to sign will become easier and more automated. Digital ID wallets taking place in Europe and trickling throughout the U.S. (electronic drivers licenses) will help drive the innovation. “On the technical side, there will be much more moving to the cloud with better access to signing keys that don’t disrupt the signing process… Low risk transactions (think Accept Terms and Conditions) will become easier to perform and legislatures will move more documents into categories without a need for an advanced qualified signature and ID verification. They’ll become more commoditized and cheaper in the long run.” Jay Schiavo, VP Product and Markets, Certificate Solutions - Entrust On the other end are high risk transactions (car leasing, property purchase). Those requirements will increase with more security needs in place.  We will also see a form of self sovereign identity transaction as Digital Signatures move on to Blockchain Technology. With Blockchain, you increase the security of your invoices, documents or tenders by storing the digital signatures in a Blockchain and not in the PDF documents themselves. “Just as 20 years ago we would have never imagined getting on a plan with a QR code instead of a physical boarding pass, the innovation in the future will be about acknowledging, signing, and accepting the data behind the message and visual representation of the document in a digital environment.” Raf Hens, CTO - iText Software Curious in the entire webinar? You can access it for free! CTA template Wide orange Get to know our speakers Subscribe for iText updates Main image teaser FireSide Promoted to home page text Get key takeaways from iText's Fireside Chat #1: "Examining Security and Digital Document Signing". With Accenture, Scrive and Entrust. [Less]

Latest iText products are not affected by Log4j2 vulnerability julie.kluyskens Tue, 12/14/2021 - 11:30 As you might be aware, a Log4j2 vulnerability was reported on December 9 2021. The remote code execution ... [More] vulnerability CVE-2021-44228 was found in the Apache Log4j library, a part of the Apache Logging Project. If a product uses a vulnerable version of this library with the JNDI module for logging purposes, there is a high possibility that this vulnerability can be exploited. (Source: https://securelist.com/cve-2021-44228-vulnerability-in-apache-log4j-library/105210/). In case you have any concerns about this related to iText products, we can assure you that the iText Suite (5 & 7) are not affected by this issue. iText DITO might be falsely flagged as potentially affected, but we are happy to let you know it is not. While we do have a log4j dependency on the Manager component, the JDK version used within the container is not part of the vulnerability. However, to address any concerns, we will be releasing an update this week for iText DITO to resolve this false positive. Tags logging Article type iText news Related products iText 7 Suite iText 5 iText DITO® Main image vulnerability teaser image Promoted to home page text Latest iText products are not affected by Log4j2 vulnerability. Read more. [Less]

Latest iText products are not affected by Log4j2 vulnerability julie.kluyskens Tue, 12/14/2021 - 11:30 As you might be aware, a Log4j2 vulnerability was reported on December 9 2021. The remote code execution ... [More] vulnerability CVE-2021-44228 was found in the Apache Log4j library, a part of the Apache Logging Project. If a product uses a vulnerable version of this library with the JNDI module for logging purposes, there is a high possibility that this vulnerability can be exploited. (Source: https://securelist.com/cve-2021-44228-vulnerability-in-apache-log4j-library/105210/). In case you have any concerns about this related to iText products, we can assure you that the iText Suite (5 & 7) are not affected by this issue. iText DITO might be falsely flagged as potentially affected, but we are happy to let you know it is not. While we do have a log4j dependency on the Manager component, the JDK version used within the container is not part of the vulnerability. However, to address any concerns, we will be releasing an update this week for iText DITO to resolve this false positive. Tags logging Article type iText news Related products iText 7 Suite iText 5 iText DITO® Main image vulnerability teaser image Promoted to home page text Latest iText products are not affected by Log4j2 vulnerability. Read more. [Less]