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CrawfordTech’s PDF Accelerator delivers performance enhancing, flexible optimization capabilities for the processing of large PDF files. PDF Accelerator is an industry proven solution used to streamline and optimize PDFs for print, archival and e-delivery, ensuring increased performance, efficient asset and resource utilization and significant productivity gains.
PDF Accelerator is the ideal solution to quickly and easily address the challenges of problematic PDFs caused by poor document composition, faulty rendering algorithms, concatenation or repurposing files. Robust configuration and tuning capabilities ensure PDFs can be streamlined and optimized based on your specific requirements. These powerful capabilities can be implemented across many applications without configuration changes.
For print and mail organizations, PDF Accelerator solves the business challenges of efficiently managing the processing of large, complex PDF applications, including legacy applications. When combined with components such as our document re-engineering solution, Operations Express, print changes and optimization are processed within a single pass, ensuring high volume operations can produce superior results at speed – maximizing asset utilization and operational efficiency.
Benefits
Improve PDF processing performance
Standardize PDF structures and combines or eliminates duplicate resources for significantly faster processing and turnaround time.
Deliver high quality print results
Optimize images and graphics to meet the specific requirements of the target channel/delivery devices.
Flexible, high performance print processing
Optimize applications for processing on target devices at rated speed.
Save costs on PDF storage requirements
Minimize file sizes through compression, color management and streamlining fonts for fast viewing and reduced storage costs.
Business Challenge
To remain competitive and profitable, print and mail organizations are challenged to optimize productivity and reduce costs while managing a broad spectrum of print applications. With the increased use of PDFs for the delivery of customer communications, organizations are having to manage and process complex transactional PDFs, including those that might be less than ideal.
Increasingly, this results in extended processing times, extended print windows or downtime, poor print quality, workflow delays, additional resource requirements, missed SLAs, etc. Organizations need purpose-built, flexible solutions that enable the efficient and cost-effective processing of any PDF printstream.
Wright Business Graphics, a leading West Coast print supplier, turned to Crawford Technologies help them meet aggressive SLAs with their complex PDF processing. See how they leveraged PDF Accelerator and Operations Express for high performance results and reduced processing times by 60%.
Product Details
Flexible, High Performance Capabilities
PDF Accelerator leverages highly configurable, proven transformation solutions to rapidly interpret, convert, and normalize existing PDF files into streamlined PDFs for printing, archiving or electronic presentment. It’s robust performance, size and quality optimization capabilities provide the flexibility needed to meet specific device, delivery type and operational requirements. When combined with components such as our document re- engineering solution, Operations Express, print changes and optimization are processed within a single pass, ensuring high volume operations can produce superior results at speed – maximizing asset utilization and operational efficiency.
Leverages intelligent resource management to reduce and reuse resources for smaller file sizes and to speed processing and archiving.
Deletes unnecessary resources and removes duplicate images to speed up download, retrieval and viewing.
Employs color management techniques to support print or electronic presentment delivery requirements.
Purpose Built, Industry Proven
PDF Accelerator solves the business challenge of the efficient management and processing of high volume, transactional PDF applications. It is a component of Crawford Technologies Output Management suite of solutions and integrates with our document re-engineering, QA, and workflow solutions to support print, archival and electronic document delivery requirements. It leverages our in-depth knowledge and unequalled expertise with printstream processing to ensure quality, high-performance and cost-effective results.
99%
Savings
Streamlined Fonts
1.46 GB down to 82 MB
95%
Faster
Processing Time
7 hrs to less than 20 mins
Use Cases
Integrations
Specifications
Improve printer performance: optimize resources to achieve rated speed on target devices.
Accelerate file transfers: optimize file size to speed transfers
Multi-channel delivery: optimize PDFs, reduce file size and improve compatibility with different devices and platforms.
Archive Storage Efficiency: Compress PDF file size to reduce costly storage requirements and improve search and retrieval times
Outsource print to a print service provider that requires PDF files will all required resources embedded without
Web and mobile optimization: Reduce file size, improve loading time and enhance user experience.
PDF Accelerator integrates with our document re-engineering, QA, and production workflow automation platforms for print and electronic document delivery and can be invoked using an API (Java, .NET, C) as well as via command line and scripts. On Premise or SaaS implementation options are available for added business flexibility. It can be easily integrated into your systems by leveraging our enPower API Web Services.
PDF Accelerator is a component of Crawford Technologies' Enterprise Output Management suite of solutions. It leverages our in-depth knowledge and unequaled expertise with PDF and printstream processing to ensure successful, cost-effective results.
Integration Options
Command Line
API
Scripts
Invoked with Java & .NET API, Command line, Workflows with PRO Conductor, scripts
Runs on all major operating systems: Windows, Linux, AIX,HP-UX, Solaris, z/ OS, Linux for System z.
Flexible implementation with CTI SaaS solution – PRO
Crawford Technologies, provider of innovative document solutions that streamline, improve and manage customer communications, reports on the success of its sixth annual Industry Summit held April 3-4 in Chicago.
Crawford Technologies, a leading provider of innovative document solutions that streamline, improve and manage customer communications, will hold its sixth annual Industry Summit on April 2-3 at the Sable Hotel at Navy Pier in Chicago. The in-person event brings together end users, analysts, consultants and industry experts in customer communications and accessibility from healthcare, insurance, finance and more to share best practices, trends and actionable takeaways designed to drive innovation and efficiency in customer communications.
Thirty years in technology isn’t just a milestone; it’s an economic lifetime. It reflects a commitment to continuous, focused evolution. At Crawford Technologies, this anniversary isn’t just about looking back. It’s about reaffirming the conviction that guided our journey from a single vision to becoming a trusted leader in customer communications.
What if the biggest gains in efficiency, scalability, and cost savings aren’t found in the latest automation tool—but in how your workflows are structured?
Workflow normalization – the process of standardizing disparate workflows - is the foundation of high-performing operations. This crucial strategy is more precisely and powerfully described as Intelligent Workflow Consolidation.
This white paper explores a significant shift in transactional and repetitive direct mail workflows. Traditional technology has historically caused delays and errors for organizations and service providers. However, with the emergence of advanced technology, data files can now drive the production process and automate tasks, reducing the need for manual intervention or relying on staff knowledge. This paper outlines how Data Optimization , workflow normalization, automation, cloud, and rapid onboarding are revolutionizing the print and mail industry.
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When this large, internationally distributed provider of payment technology and services took on a new project that required outputting over 800 million documents per year, they needed to streamline and automate their processes. They leveraged CrawfordTech solutions to automatically standardize the extensive range of incoming file types and reengineer the composed print stream, including applying new barcodes, swapping out images and replacing them with color images, and removing and adding banner pages. The result was a reliable and fast automated workflow that increased profits and saved more than 80% in configuration time.