Category Archives: Other Topics (Non-PDF)

Understanding U.S. Copyrights and PDFs*

Can You Print and Distribute Someone Else’s Intellectual Property? When does a document become copyrighted? What is digital rights management, and how do they apply to PDFs? Is it legal to make copies of PDFs? This article answers FAQs about DRM, copyrights, and PDF documents. Copyright is a term that generally refers to protecting the …

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Need to OCR a PDF? What Optical Character Recognition Means

Definition of Optical Character Recognition and How It’s Used in Scanning Technology  What is the meaning of OCR in scanning and PDF terminology? How does optical character recognition work? Why would you need to know about OCR technology? Optical character recognition, or OCR, is a useful piece of technology for scanning documents and images. OCR …

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5 Ways PDFs Make Life Easier

Why Use PDF File Formats? 5 Benefits of PDFs In this article, we’ll be going through some of the many ways that PDFs make document sharing easier in your digital life.  PDF stands for portable document format and is commonly used for presenting and transferring information without losing formatting settings between computer systems. PDFs are …

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