Question:
I have hundreds of boxes of documents that contain information I am required to store for at least ten years. I understand the best format to archive these documents is PDF/A? Will your PDF Compressor Enterprise output to PDF/A and make these documents full-text searchable?

Answer:
Yes, PDF/A is the best format for long-term archiving (defined by ISO 19005-1:2005). This standard offers assurance that archived documents will maintain their appearance and readability regardless of which applications and systems were used to create them. And yes, the PDF Compressor Enterprise has an integrated ABBYY FineReader OCR engine and with this tool you can create full-text searchable PDF/A documents in one pass. Additionally, the PDF Compressor applies award-winning mixed raster content (MRC) compression technology and therefore you will save on storage costs with smaller file sizes!

Learn more about PDF/A at www.pdfa.org

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Question:
I want to use PDF Compressor to compress 100,000 single page TIFF scans and apply optical character recognition (OCR). Do you think a PC with Windows XP™ and a 1.8 GHz Dual-Core CPU with 2 GB is sufficient? What do you recommend for optimum performance?

Answer:
PDF Compressor clearly benefits from a fast CPU, so preferably use a machine with more than 2 GHz. Additionally, it helps if few other applications run on that CPU at the same time.

On a multi-core computer PDF Compressor will only use the number of processor cores it is licensed for. For your Dual-Core system you can buy either a Single-Core or Dual-Core license. With a Dual-Core license two compression jobs can run in parallel, effectively almost doubling the throughput.

2 GB of main memory should suffice for your compression task, unless other applications occupy a lot of memory. We recommend 2 GB per licensed processor core for PDF Compressor.

Moreover, as each project is unique, I suggest you download a trial of PDF Compressor and test its performance with your documents.

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