Also this year's CeBIT LuraTech exhibits at the booth of VOI. We are presenting our products and solutions right in the center of the DMS and archiving area in hall 1, booth K71. See our show highlights:

One of the show's highlights is PDF/A which became the ISO standard for long-term preservation end of last year. Now there's a lot demand for information since PDF/A is the first file format designed to cover the needs of long-term archiving.

Long-term archiving has special requirements to a file format: It may not be proprietary but must be under control of an independent commitee. Documents in a digital archive need to be rendered identically over time and several generations of hardware. The file format should be kept simple and contain version information and standardized meta data. PDF/A exceeds all this requirements! It is ideally suited for any type of document from any source and frees you from all the limitations of a TIFF based archive. PDF/A is full-text capable and can handle color as well as black/white scans. Other documents like MS Office files or CAD drawings can also be converted to PDF/A and be archived in a common format.

LuraTech is one of the first vendors to offer PDF/A compliant products for scanned documents. The well-known LuraTech solutions LuraDocument PDF Compressor Server and LuraDocument PDF for KODAK Capture Software support PDF/A now!

Are you interested?

Visit us in hall 1 booth K71 or get your demo online:

• www.luratech.com/download/pdf

On this year's CeBIT LuraTech shows a variety of products for financial service companies. LuraTech focusses on digitizing scanned documents and archiving them audit proof and close to the original.

During the last month well-known insurances as the DEVK Versicherung and BKK Emmendingen as well as banks like the Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba) opted for LuraTech solutions.

Financial institution use LuraDocument e.g. for full-color storage of scanned credit files or checks. Insurances are moving towards the digital archiving of color photographies, medical documents and diagrams, prescriptions and reports which hasn't been possible with black/white archives.

LuraTech helps financial service companies to optimize their digital inbox, document management systems, and digital archives by offering ISO compliant JPEG2000 and PDF/A solutions.

More and more libraries start to digitize their assets. Driven by major scan activities by Google and the Open Content Alliance - a coorperation of Microsoft, Yahoo, Internet Archive, among others - the number of projects grows continuously.

At CeBIT LuraTech shows OCR workflow products for the automatic processing of scanned documents. Lossless JPEG2000 compression and award-winning ABBYY OCR technology is applied to create full-text capable and high compressed PDF files, e.g. from scanned books. The Open Content Alliance successfully adopted LuraDocument for their huge book scanning project and processes several thousand pages a day.

Furthermore LuraTech shows a pre-release of a brand new Image and Content Server. It enables you to provide easy and efficient access to your scanned documents over the intra- or internet. All you need is a common web browser, there's no need to install any plug-ins. The server's image conversion technology enables you to flip pages just like in a real book and zoom into every detail of a page. The Image and Content Server automatically converts a variety of meta data formats for easy display in any web browser.

See the future of image delivery and visit us in hall 1 booth K71!

Friday, March 10th, 2006, 2:00 pm at DMS forum, hall 1, booth L77
Speaker: Carsten Heiermann
"New file formats for archiving" (german)

Monday, March 13th, 2006, 1:00 pm at DMS forum, hall 1, booth L77
Speaker: Carsten Heiermann
"PDF/A - An introduction to the new ISO standard for long-term archiving" (german)

Monday, March 13th, 2006, 3:45 pm at DMS forum, hall 1, booth L77
Speaker: Thomas Zellmann
"Inbox: full color or black/white" (german)

The full agenda of the DMS forum can be found at the VOI website:

• www.voi.de -> Termine -> CeBIT

LuraTech is a leading provider of software technology for images and documents as well as JPEG2000 implementations. The company delivers easy-to-integrate, open-standard products, coupled with enterprise-class support for public and private sector organizations.

Leveraging JPEG2000, the LuraWave and LuraDocument products make the compression of color images faster, more feature-rich and affordable than ever before by reducing storage and bandwidth costs while increasing end user productivity.

Organizations around the world have adopted LuraTech products, including german Bundesdruckerei, Corel Corporation, EADS, Kodak Medical, PDF Tools AG, Ocè, d.evelop AG and Scanpoint. Furthermore, well-known banks and insurances like BKK Emmendingen, the DEVK insurance and the Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen are customers of the compression specialist. The solutions for archives and libraries are sucessfully deployed by the Library of Congress, the national archive of Japan and the Internet Archive.

LuraTech was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Germany with offices throughout Europe and the United States.