Author Archives: Thomas Zellmann, Product Evangelist

High compression for scanned documents in PhantomPDF
  • October 9, 2018
  • Thomas Zellmann, Product Evangelist

You’ve probably faced a situation where you had to send a massive PDF file via email. When you sent it, you found that your 50-page document with images took several minutes to upload—and that’s assuming the size was within the ...

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Why you never need to scan black-and-white again
  • June 26, 2018
  • Thomas Zellmann, Product Evangelist

Today, many people still scan their documents to image files such as TIFF, JPEGs, PNG and/or BMP. If you do the same, that means you’re creating a picture of your document that has nothing more to offer other than a ...

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PDF Days Europe is coming this May
  • April 17, 2018
  • Thomas Zellmann, Product Evangelist

There’s been 25 years of PDF, 10 years as an ISO standard, and now, we’re looking at the ascendance and future of the world’s electronic document format.   It all happens May 14-16 2018, in Berlin, Germany at PDF Days Europe, ...

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Migrating your archive? Now’s the time to convert to PDF/A
  • January 30, 2018
  • Thomas Zellmann, Product Evangelist

It’s no secret that archive migration is a potentially complex and expensive undertaking. You’ve got a lot to consider, beyond merely copying over your documents. Whatever your reason for migrating your archive, now’s the time to convert your documents to ...

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Is TIFF good enough?
  • March 14, 2017
  • Thomas Zellmann, Product Evangelist

If you’re still archiving documents using TIFF, read this Time was, TIFF was considered a great format for archiving. After all, it’s a ‘de facto’ or often used format and can offer quality when saved as very large digital master ...

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