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Transform and optimize PDF print streams for production and digital workflows

Convert and restructure PDF files for faster processing, reliable delivery, and archive readiness

Product Overview

Call-out: Poorly structured PDFs increase file sizes, slow throughput, cause processing errors, and disrupt downstream production.

PRO PDF converts and optimizes PDF print streams to improve performance and reliability across production, digital, and archive workflows. It adapts PDF documents for print, digital presentment, and long-term retention while preserving document fidelity and improving efficiency.

For large, complex, or poorly formed PDF files, normalization via PDF Accelerator addresses structural inefficiencies, improves throughput, and extends the value of PDF content.

Benefits

High-speed PDF Processing

Reliable output fidelity

PDF structure optimization

What does PRO PDF do?

PRO PDF processes and optimizes PDF print streams to improve performance and enable conversion for high-volume production workflows.

Document elements such as text, fonts, and graphics are processed accurately across statements, policies, EOBs, and other complex documents.

Poorly structured PDFs are normalized to eliminate duplicate fonts and graphical elements, reduce file size, and improve processing performance.

Core Capabilities

Convert PDF output:

Convert PDF print streams into AFP, PostScript, PCL, HTML, Metacode or IJPDS output formats

Normalize complex PDFs:

Restructure poorly formed PDF files to remove duplicate objects, reduce file size, and improve processing speed

Optimize font and graphics:

Manage fonts, images, forms and graphical resources for consistent output and improved processing efficiency

Preserve document fidelity:

Maintain original layouts, fonts, images, forms and graphic resources across output formats

Support secure workflows:

Apply PDF encryption, digital signing, and output security controls

Improve document accessibility:

Generate accessibility reports and support remediation initiatives

Enable indexing and automation:

Extract content and metadata for indexing, audit logging, workflow automation and archive processes

Apply intelligent processing:

Support document splitting, blank-page suppression, and production workflow optimization

Integrate with existing workflows:

Connect with batch, on-demand, API-driven and hot-folder environments

Customer Success Story

A Financial Solutions Provider Automates Their Workflow

This large company provides financial benefits solutions such as disability, life, health and accident insurance to 30 million people directly as well as through more than 150,000 brokers in the UK and the US. They rely on inkjet technology to produce and mail statements and other material, and deal with very high volume and regulatory driven SLAs . Their goal was to be more efficient with a solution that would integrate their existing postal optimization software and their production workflow for an end-to-end automated workflow.

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Transform Options

PDF to AFP

Convert PDF output to AFP to support production workflows and consistent output across environments.

PDF to PS/PCL

Transform PDF documents into PS or PCL to support mixed print environments and printer migrations.

PDF to HTML (Responsive)

Transform PDF content into responsive HTML for on-demand retrieval, digital presentment, and customer portal access.

PDF to IJPDS

Convert PDF print streams into IJPDS to support high-speed inkjet production environments and ensure compatibility with modern print workflows.

PDF Normalization

Restructure inefficient PDF files to reduce duplicate resources, lower storage size, and improve processing efficiency.

Reprint automation

Generate production-ready output from archive PDF files.
Use Cases
Integrations
  • Convert PDF files into AFP, PCL, Metacode, or IJPDS to support production print, high-speed inkjet, and mixed output environments
  • Normalize large, inefficient, or poorly structured PDFs to improve processing speed, reduce errors, and meet SLAs
  • Prepare high-volume customer communications, including statements, policies, invoices, and EOBs, for reliable print and digital delivery
  • Reduce production delays and processing errors caused by complex or poorly structured PDF files
  • Generate production-ready reprints from archived PDF files
  • Reduce PDF file size to improve downstream processing efficiency
  • Convert PDF content into responsive HTML for digital presentment, on-demand retrieval and customer portal access
  • Standardize incoming PDF files from multiple sources for consistent processing across workflows
  • Support print, archive, and digital workflows from a single, optimized PDF source

Flexible Integration and Deployment Options

Cloud Deployment

Deploy PRO PDF in the environment that fits your business, including SaaS through PRO DocNow, private cloud, major cloud platforms, containerized deployments and on-premises environments.

Integrations

PRO PDF integrates into existing document workflows through flexible APIs and integration options, including C/C++, Java, RESTful services, and gRPC, while supporting batch, on-demand, and hot-folder processing for PDF transformation and delivery workflows.

Operating system support

PRO PDF supports major enterprise operating systems:

  • z/OS, Linux for System z
  • AIX, Solaris
  • Windows, Linux

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