TWAIN Working Group and PDF Association Announce PDF/R, a PDF Technology-Based ISO Standard
Share Article RALEIGH, N.C. (PRWEB) April 15, 2021 The TWAIN Working Group (TWG) and the PDF Association, today announced PDF/R (a.k.a. PDF/raster), an ISO-standardized format for storing, transporting and exchanging multi-page raster-image documents, such as scanned documents and photographs. As a subset of PDF technology, PDF/R takes advantage of existing widespread support for viewing, printing and processing PDF files. As a domain-specific subset of PDF, it is simple to generate and interpret, allowing it to replace the TIFF and JPEG file formats for capture and delivery of scanner output. PDF/R provides the portability of PDF while offering the core functionality of TIFF, bitonal, grayscale and true color images. PDF/R fits well into existing workflows and is compatible so either existing libraries or newly developed f
Plustek Inc. Joins TWAIN Working Group as an Associate Member
Share Article RALEIGH, N.C. (PRWEB) March 03, 2021 The TWAIN Working Group (TWG), a not-for-profit organization designed to provide and foster a universal public standard which links applications and image acquisition devices, today announced that Plustek Inc. has joined the Group as an Associate member. Plustek Inc. designs and manufactures a comprehensive range of imaging scanners along with intelligent process automation and data extraction solutions. Plustek’s engagement with the TWAIN Working Group as an Associate Member will further strengthen the development efforts of the TWAIN Classic and TWAIN Direct open source initiatives for communication between scanners and software applications, which will in turn provide the most up-to-date TWAIN functionality for Plustek integrators and end users.