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 …

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 …