There are a number of products available that can create or manipulate PDF files. Although most of our clients use the TIFF image file format for archival work, the PDF format can be beneficial to some applications. One of the best and most flexible tools that we have found comes from Adlib Software .

This recognized innovator in the enterprise document conversion software market, provides products that integrate seamlessly with enterprise application software or can be easily implemented as part of any document workflow solution. Of particular interest are:

• Express Conversion Server. Document transformation engine that converts hundreds of file types including: Microsoft Office documents, scanned images, engineering drawings, web and image formats to Adobe PDF. It’s rich feature set includes stamping, merging, splitting, bookmark/hyperlink creation, PDF security and Table Of Contents creation. With a simple, but powerful watched folder interface and scripting tools, Express Conversion Server is easy to integrate into your document workflow.
  
  
• Express Recognition Server. Capture and convert paper documents - faxes, photocopies and images - into searchable electronic files. A best of breed solution to maximize value from your paper documents. Optional enhancements include modules to enable Barcode Recognition as well as, marks made on forms using Optical Mark Recognition (OMR). In addition it can perform OCR on specific regions of a page - a process known as Zonal OCR and extract the recognized data into XML files for further analysis.