Many companies have made the choice to use annotations to mark-up documents, often through a document viewing application, without touching the original content.
Government bodies and other organizations have begun to announce their intentions to shift to open standards that will make information more accessible and allow for more sustainable archiving processes. Of particular interest at the moment is XML.
Collaboration is becoming an increasingly important requirement for enhancing workflow. As a result companies are relying on PDF to easily distribute, review, and mark-up documents while ensuring consistent layout, fonts and formatting.
Complying with federal regulations, streamlining workflow, and managing assets more efficiently are increasing the need for businesses to capture and store their corporate information.
Converting documents from one format to another can have many advantages for organizations, helping them realize increased productivity, better communication and enhanced process improvement, but what format should be used and why?