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New versions of PDF manipulation SDK products for software developers have been released by ByteScout on June 2nd, 2014. ByteScout offers developers the ready-to-use solutions to implement PDF viewers and convert PDF to text, HTML, images with no additional software required. Here is a list of some of the new and updated features in ByteScout SDKs: 1) PDF Extractor SDK 4.00.1487. Convert PDF to text, extract images from PDF, convert PDF to CSV for Excel, PDF to XML. What's new PDF Extractor SDK 4.00.1487: improved pdf to text, [...]

In the past, whenever someone wanted to learn something new he had only two options; either to buy a book or to visit some training institution. If we look at the current learning and knowledge sharing techniques we find that the internet and the World Wide Web has revolutionized this area as well. Now if you want to learn or want to get information something you go to some search engine and type what you [...]

PDF/A (Archival Portable Document Format) or commonly referred to as the archival PDF is a type of standard PDF, which is used to store information for a longer period of time as compared to the traditional PDF. PDF/A is an ISO-standardized variation of PDF and is widely used to preserve electronic documents and files, digitally for longer periods of time. History and Purpose Usage Levels of PDF/A Viewing PDF/A files Disadvantages of PDF/A Differences between [...]

Barcodes are small images tagged or pasted on products that contain certain information about the product. Barcodes are often used by retail stores, warehouses, and even government industries in order to encode information about the product, vendor, and receiver of the product. It can also encode information regarding the source and destination of the mail or parcel. Virtually, you can store almost anything in barcodes. Scanners are special devices used to decode the information in [...]

ActiveX is a software application development framework Introduced by Microsoft in 1996. The ActiveX framework was geared towards web application development by combining and adapted versions of earlier COM (Component Object Model) with the Object Linking and Embedding Technologies (OLE) which is widely used for downloading content from the websites. Although theoretically, ActiveX was created with the intent to work on all the platforms it is mostly used on window platforms, and due to compiled [...]

Codabar barcode is a one-dimensional barcode initially used for retail applications labeling. The Codabar barcode can encode numeric digits from 0-9 and five characters including Plus (+), Minus (-), Forward slash (/), Colon (:), Dollar symbol ($) and Dot (.). Apart from numeric digits and the aforementioned character set, Codabar can also encode the first four alphabets from ‘a’ to ‘d’; however, these alphabets can only be used as the start and stop symbols. Codabar [...]

Today is the most suitable day to remember some interesting stories about barcodes. Funny Fact 1: In Seattle, QR codes are inscribed on graves which contain a link to the detailed information about the deceased person Funny Fact  2: The first patent for bar code was issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver on October 7 of 1952. Funny Fact 3: Wrigley's Gum was the first product to have a barcode included in June of 1974, at a Marsh's [...]

We are proud to announce our new (new and the first) free e-book called "Introduction Into Barcodes". This free book will (we hope) help business users and software developers to quickly get introduced into different types of barcodes to make the best choice. Download the book from this page (no sign-up or registration required!): https://bytescout.com/books/introduction-into-barcodes-book.html The book is available in PDF, ePUB and MOBI (Kindle) formats for free, contains 48 pages: The Table of Contents [...]

The following are some of the milestones achieved by Microsoft in Windows server technology. Windows NT 4.0 The year 1996 is particularly significant in Microsoft’s web server technology. Windows NT 4.0 was released in 1996 which introduced several advanced features like GUI-based interactive services, faster printing, and administrative capabilities. It also integrated IIS 2.0 for the first time in Microsoft server operating systems. With the improvements in internet technology, this free server was a huge [...]

The abbreviation PDF stands for Portable Document Format that is a multi-format file format developed by Adobe Systems. PDF captures formatted documents such as images, fonts, document texts, and even does formatting of documents from a variety of Desktop Publishing Applications. The greatest advantage of PDF is that it contains color-accurate information, it prints the documents as it is as they appear on your screen. You need Adobe Reader, free software distributed by Adobe Systems [...]