CVISION Technologies

Question: I need to decrease the size of a PDF file I have on my computer. Can you direct me to your solution for decreasing PDF file sizes? It is a scanned, color PDF.
 
Answer: You can decrease the size of the PDF file with PdfCompressor. If you have a color, scanned PDF, we can obtain results of up to 100:1 reduction. You are welcome to use our free trial:

www.cvisiontech.com/download_main.html

Question: Does PdfCompressor offer OCR, optical character recognition? I know by name, it compressed documents, but does it also offer text-searchability through OCR?

Answer: Yes, PdfCompressor offers compression of scanned documents, as well as OCR, optical character recognition. Our OCR is available in 60+ languages and is used by companies all over the world.

If you are interested in testing our OCR, click the link below:

http://www.cvisiontech.com/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=45&&Itemid=206

Question: We are encountering slowness with the process of converting TIFF to PDF which is done by CVista PdfCompressor. Last night, our TIFF files for conversion reached up to 435 files and some of them have been waiting to be converted for more than 4 hours. As of today, the slowness is still there, thus we decided to manually move TIFF files for conversion to the waiting folder so PdfCompressor can accommodate the files and convert them faster. But, this is not the normal scenario.

Answer: The processing of file would depend on the number of pages the document has. If the document has many pages and in addition each page is being OCRed it would cause a slow down because the engine is working on OCRing that many pages in just one document.

Are you performing OCR? What mode of OCR are you using? How many pages per document are you processing.

You can speed up PdfCompressor by using less intense settings. If that is not an option for you I would suggest using PdfCompressor on a machine that has multiple processors (4 or 8 processors) and run PdfCompressor in multithreading mode allowing you to process as many files as processors at the same time.

Another choice would be to have PdfCompressor running on two different machines and utilizing the processing power on 2 machines, but once again the more processors you have the more files you will be able to process at the same time.

How many processors does your current machine have?

Question: Do you have a PDF glossary? Or a reference library?

Answer: Yes, here is the link:

http://www.cvisiontech.com/library.html

Question: I would like to convert my files from TIFF to compressed PDF files. Can you send me the link to download?

Answer: Sure, I have attached the link below. We can convert TIFFs into compressed, searchable PDF files.

http://www.cvisiontech.com/download_main.html

Question: I can only compress files to PDFs, no matter what the original format is, but I can decompress back to –say- jpeg, exactly how it was before, right? I plan to compress a whole bunch of older projects. So if anyone ever asks what happened to the pictures I can decompress them back to jpeg, tiff or whatever the original format was, correct?

Answer: Yes the software compresses to PDF only, but decompresses to all the other formats as well.

Question: I am having trouble getting PdfCompressor to have its output folder be a network drive. I know I have full rights to the network drives. Do you know what the problem might be?

Answer: This issue seems to be caused by the way the watch folder is setup. I notice that in your “watchfolder.cfg” file the paths are referred to with a mapped drive. Please either reconstruct your settings or edit the watchfolder.cfg file to use the UNC path instead of the mapped drives that are being used at this time. You may have other things that are preventing you from successfully starting up the watch folder, therefore if the above doesn’t fix the issue please feel free to contact me for additional support.

Question: Recently, we bought the PdfCompressor. We have many scanned documents on one of our computers. Can we put these scanned documents in one place where it can compress automatically?

Answer: PdfCompressor has a feature which is called a “watch folder” which runs as a service on a particular machine or server. The folders that PdfCompressor watches could be a network folder/s or a local folder/s. Once files are dropped into these folders our compressor would automatically grab the files and compress them.
Moreover, watchedfolder.log provides reports the time and success status of each file compressed, but there is only one time reported (the time it finished compressing). The number of pages compressed is not reported in the watchedfolder.log; this is provided separately in the audit log (if it’s turned on).

The audit log reports the time completed, number of pages compressed, and optionally a client code for each file compressed. To enable the audit log, you have to specify the “-config filename” flag and have at least the following in the config file:

Question: I recently downloaded the trial version of CVISION’s PdfCompressor. I noticed that when I use it to compress files, it automatically adds a line of text on each page. Is there a way to disable this option?

Answer: Thank you for your inquiry to CVISION; we appreciate you taking the time out to evaluate our software. The watermark and footer appear only in the trial version of the software. When using the “Full version” neither the footer nor the watermark will be present. To disable the watermark you must have a purchased version of PdfCompressor.

Question: I had to re-install the PdfCompressor evaluation copy after a computer operating system problem. How can I extend or re-evaluate my trial of PdfCompressor?

Answer: Follow the steps below in order to extend your trial:
1. Please follow this link to download Grab ID http://www.cvisiontech.com/eval/grabid.zip and unzip it to an empty folder on your hard drive.

2. Run GRABID.EXE, and send the displayed ID back to support@cvisiontech.com.

3. Please indicate the version of PdfCompressor that you are evaluating, whether it is the Desktop Edition or the Professional edition.

This ID enables us to generate an extension on your trial of PdfCompressor. Support will receive the request, review it, and very typically grant permission.