1. End User
End users can use one of three different methods to create or extract their PDFs (The administrator determines methods used):
(a) E-mail:
End-user sends an e-mail with the document for conversion to designated e-mail address. Once the document has been processed by the server, the converted result is returned to the user via e-mail.
(b) Watched Folder:
Using the watched folder method, users drop their documents into a designated file folder. In the case of Absolute PDF Server, there will be three folders: One for creating PDFs, One for extracting PDF contents to Word, and one for extracting PDF contents to Excel. A single output folder will be present for users to retrieve their converted document.
(c) Job Ticket User Interface:
The administrator can deploy a simple user interface to individual desktops where it can be used by end users to perform conversions. |
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2. Inputs
(i) Many different electronic file formats (for conversion into PDF).
(ii) Image (scanned) PDFs and Tiff (for conversion into searchable PDF).
(iii) Image (scanned) PDFs (for conversion into MS Excel/MS Word).
(iv) Native PDF documents (for conversion into MS Excel/MS Word).
3. IT/Network Administrator Sees
Through the use of the administrator interface, the IT department will have the ultimate control over document management organization wide and will be able to easily integrate Absolute PDF Server into the existing IT process. able to set such things as:
- Permissions
- The Conversion Method
- Document Features
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4. Server
After processing the document via the server, the result is delivered to the user in one of the designated output forms:
5. Output
PDF – A large number of printable MS Windows file formats are successfully converted into PDF.
Searchable PDFs – The text from image PDFs that were previously unsearchable become searchable.
MS Excel Output – native and image PDFs are transformed into formatted Excel spreadsheets where they can be used for data analysis.
MS Word Output – native and image PDFs are transported into editable Word documents for document revision.
