The Volvo Car Group's global success is driven by making life less complicated for people,
while strengthening their commitment to safety and the environment.
Today, Volvo is one of the most well-known and respected car brands in the world with sales in
about 100 countries.
They wanted to reduce the cost of their existing
PDF solution and to simplify the license model. They required a single, easy to deploy PDF
solution that they can
standardize across all their business units, including
the design, manufacturing, finance, marketing, and sales organizations.
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With close to 500,000 electronic health records (EHR) in their database, leading cancer research and treatment center City of Hope would spend huge amounts of time manually searching for patient data critical to their research and treatment needs. The health center began looking for a robust OCR solution to recognize text on these scanned EHR image documents and index them in the database.
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The Citizenship and Immigration Services arm of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS - CIS) monitors and manages a global database of individuals of interest. This database consists of passports, photos, and other documentation that must be rapidly accessible in a distributed environment.
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Oklahoma Heart Hospital, the leading cardiovascular care institution in Oklahoma as well as the nation’s first all-digital hospital faced challenges when managing their paper-based documents. On a daily basis, the hospital receives 3000 images of checks and check remittance documents. The inefficiency related to searching through and processing the check scans compelled Oklahoma Heart to look for a batch OCR and compression solution.
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American Radio History preserves documents and periodicals of the radio and television broadcasting industry to make this information available to internet users. Due to the volume of material and the need to provide small and quick downloads, American Radio History needs to compress all scanned material.
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Black & Veatch needed to have their Homeland Security-related documents converted to PDF and compressed in order to store them on a database. The documents contained time-critical information that needed to be quickly viewed and accessed by members of the US Department of Homeland Security.
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Frontier Farm Credit provides financial services for customers in the agriculture industry. The company has six regional offices in different locations as well as an administrative office. All of the locations receive documents such as tax returns and insurance forms in TIFF format or PDF. On average, a tax form can be anywhere from 16 to 30 pages and the typical file size is over 3 MB.
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Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, an international law firm, routinely deals with a high
inflow of large documents that range from hundreds to thousands of pages long. The overwhelming
volume of these files prevented easy and efficient remote access, as downloading documents
offsite would take an impracticably long amount of time.
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A prestigious global law firm in the United States needed to overcome the various challenges
associated with handling high volumes of documents. They were using batch processing with a
competing OCR product that limited the processing of documents to one at time.
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Chase Bank, one of the top five global financial firms in the United States needed to overcome
the various challenges associated with high volume scanning. The firm was fully satisfied using
OpenText Captiva to transform paper into business-ready content but several inefficiencies
remained for their end-users who worked with the scanned images. Based on their high volume of
mortgage documents, one of the biggest challenges the firm faced was high storage and back-up
costs.
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Transitioning into a paperless office and working with digital documents is always easier said
than done. A lot of times companies struggle to find the right solution to manage their workflow
and allow them to properly work on their digital files. Our partner IMA Financial was one of
those companies that were looking for a way to reduce the amount of applications they were
using. They found Foxit’s PDF technology as the best solution to standardize their digital
document workflows, while saving them time and money costs. In this case study, learn why IMA
Financial chose Foxit over four other PDF editors as their platform of choice.
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As a leading engineering company in the fields of consulting, project management, and
construction supervision, Voessing has been implementing infrastructure projects of all sizes
for 40 years. With more than 600 employees, Voessing manages projects from conception to
completion at more than 20 locations in Germany and abroad. Therefore, a well-connected IT
infrastructure is of great importance to the company. Almost all documents are converted to PDF
before being merged to the final digital project document. Voessing has been using Foxit
PhantomPDF Business for over seven years now und is happy with the decision.
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Since 1898, the Lavan name has been synonymous with one of Western Australia’s most
distinguished legal families and the independent law firm they created. The Perth-based firm
offers specialised knowledge, local networks and firsthand understanding of the Western
Australian business community to its clients. Like most law firms, Lavan’s legal specialists
handle large numbers of documents every day, and in the digital age this means a PDF editor is
one of their go-to tools.
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John O’Brien & Associates, a law firm with a large clientele throughout Australia, was facing
difficulties and unacceptable delays in processing legal documents for e-discovery and court
submission due to often huge file sizes. These documents were often scanned and emailed from
other lawyers and clients in multiple segments because their file sizes were too large to be
sent as a single attachment. This made it challenging to manage discovery documents and comply
with mandatory uploading requirements of critical submissions to court portals.
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Microform Imaging Limited, one of the most comprehensive scanning service providers in the
United Kingdom, has completed a flagship project with the help of the PDF Compressor from Foxit
Software: the website for the British Online Archive (BOA). BOA is home to nearly 4 million data
sets from private and public archives which librarians, professors, students and researchers of
the humanities and can use to learn about over 1,000 years of world history. Many of these
documents were created by Microform using the Foxit PDF Compressor.
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A global leader in power generation needed to overcome the challenge of inefficient access
associated with large PDF file sizes. Rooted in their high volume of design drawings, manuals
and other image-based documents, General Electric faced heavy delays from long file download
times as well as high bandwidth and storage costs. A substantial amount of time was lost daily
as users at power plant sites around the world waited for crucial PDF documents to arrive over
the network. Before utilizing Foxit’s Image Optimization for Documentum, accessing these
documents over this period of time was frustratingly slow and costly to access and store.
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Korein Tillery, a plaintiff law firm with offices in St. Louis and Chicago, was struggling to
process large mortgage loan files of 100-10,000 pages each. The previous process for making
their
documents text-searchable was incredibly slow and subject to significant system crashes, forcing
the Director of Litigation Support to spend hundreds of hours each year monitoring and
troubleshooting the OCR process.
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Mother Lode Holding Company (MLHC) provides title insurance, escrow services and transaction
support services to the nation's real estate industry. With the founding of its principal
subsidiary, Placer Title Company in 1973, Mother Lode has since expanded outside of its original
California market to provide title and title-related products and services throughout the United
States.
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Cura Day Hospitals Group was established in 2008 and has grown to become Australia's leading
provider of day hospital facilities. They continually seek opportunities to expand the range of
specialist services available for patients. At the same time, they take pride in providing a
quality workplace for their surgeons, nurses, and support staff.
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Founded over one hundred years ago, Miele has established and
maintained a reputation as a trusted supplier of premier domestic appliance and commercial
equipment. The company’s motto is “Always Better”. Perhaps not surprisingly, therefore, Miele
recently selected Foxit Software as its primary supplier of PDF software.
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Meredith Connell is New Zealand’s largest litigation firm, providing
clients with advice and
representation across more than 23 practice areas. Founded in 1922 and operating in Auckland and
Wellington, the
firm has experts adept at determining the best way to apply the law to any specific situation.
The massive amounts
of electronic litigation in PDF format handled across several different departments was
impacting the firm’s
productivity. Each legal expert needed the same PDF software to complete functions like
hyperlinking and combining
files, however only a few people had Adobe Acrobat licenses to do such things. That meant those
few would catch all
the work from other staff members needing their help, resulting in work stalling while court
deadlines
approached. Meredith Connell needed a better PDF solution to stay ahead of the law. It came in
the form of Foxit
PhantomPDF.
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The Bavarian State Ministry of Justice implemented Foxit Software’s
Rendition Server to
convert around 10,000 documents per week into the PDF file format. With Rendition Server, the
Ministry of Justice is
able to convert scanned images in PDF/A, compress file sizes, and perform Optical Character
Recognition (OCR) to
ensure documents are unaltered, reduce storage space, make data transmission easier, and make
the content
searchable.
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The Debt Exchange, a leading full-service loan sale advisor and exchange
platform, faced
high costs stemming from their largely manual document conversion processes. Based in Boston,
MA, the financial
services company had 25-50 employees working 8 hours per day to manually convert documents to
searchable PDF files.
At the time, they were running at least 25 separate Adobe Acrobat licenses to batch OCR and
convert client
contracts, payment histories, and legal documents to be placed on their loan exchange platform
in a readable format.
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Like any member of a growing institution, Joe Ivock, Data Center
Officer, wears many hats.
He runs all the computer systems and mainframe for 1st Summit Bank, while also handling
everything from the
Automated Clearing House (ACH) department to the imaging department.
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Almost all businesses use some form of PDF editor, and IKB Deutsche
Industriebank AG is no
exception. In 2011, the company switched from Adobe Acrobat to Foxit Software’s PhantomPDF,
saving significantly on
maintenance costs as a result. The software interface is also more closely aligned with
Microsoft Office, which has
pleased users.
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Founded more than 90 years ago, The Equitable Bank is a premier
residential real estate
lender in Milwaukee. With six branches and 115 employees, it’s a full-service bank that prides
itself on serving the
community instead of stockholders. Being able to edit and share security reports, training
documents and marketing
materials quickly and easily is a priority for employees of the financial institution. And with
cyber threats
lurking—and bank auditors questioning security procedures—keeping files safe is mandatory. With
Foxit PhantomPDF
Business, the bank found just what it needed to remain competitive with larger banks, without
having to make a major
investment in software.
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Motor Presse Stuttgart is well known in Germany as a provider of some of
the best-known
magazines on automobiles, motorbikes, air travel, utility vehicles, camping and caravanning,
lifestyle and sports.
One of its best-known media brands, “auto, motor und sport”, has been on the scene for over 65
years. The company
now also uses PhantomPDF from Foxit Software to edit PDF documents. The user-friendly, instantly
usable PDF solution
serves approximately 650 users in Motor Presse Stuttgart GmbH & Co. KG and its associated
company Rodale-MotorPresse
GmbH & Co. KG, acting as a reliable tool for handling a wide range of office jobs.
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For four decades, FHI 360 has conducted research in everything from
nutrition to technology
to economic development, sharing its insights with communities it empowers to make meaningful
changes. FHI 360
operates in more than 60 countries, including every state in the U.S. The nonprofit’s goal is to
help individuals,
families and communities help themselves through a variety of philanthropic initiatives. Keeping
software costs down
without giving up functionality is a key objective. So when it was time to consider a new PDF
solution—and after
reviewing a slew of options—FHI 360 chose Foxit PhantomPDF Business.
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For more than 45 years, Drees & Sommer has supported public- and
private-sector owners and
investors in all aspects of real estate. Managed by partners and headquartered in Stuttgart, the
company has 41
offices worldwide. The focus is always on profitability, whereby we promote sustainable building
to the greatest
possible degree. We call this approach ‘the blue way’. The construction and real estate experts
always have the goal
of producing measurable added value for the client. This could mean, for example, streamlining
the implementation of
a construction project, making the operation of a property more economical, or cutting energy
costs through
innovative concepts. Currently, the company with its approximately 2,150 employees is acting as
an independent
project manager for more than 960 construction and real estate projects.
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Established in 1944, McKenzie Tank Lines, Inc. (“MTL”) has grown from
two tank trailers
hauling petroleum products to a large diversified fleet of approximately 300 tractors and 900
tank trailers
transporting chemicals, propane and petroleum products. Employing 400 drivers, mechanics and
staff, MTL plans to add
200 to 300 more tank trailers in the next few years. Along with that expansion is a move to
bring IT back in house
after 15 years of outsourcing—a task that falls squarely to Heather Townsend, Director of
Technology.
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Within its boundaries the City of Evansville contains nearly 121,000 of
the more than
182,000 citizens that make Vanderburgh County, Indiana home, making the area the third largest
district in Indiana.
Keeping Evansville’s lifeblood flowing falls squarely on the government’s staff of 1,600. That’s
why the city
produces forms that utilize intelligent functionality brought about by advanced PDF features.
The challenge? Only a
very limited number of staff members had access to software licenses that enabled them to create
PDF forms. Many
staff members didn’t even know how to do so. Yet there was a growing push to continue to provide
intelligence to the
way the district works with its citizens and businesses.
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The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC)
needed to find all
relevant documents utilizing a search query
based on text inside and across all files. These documents included complex PDF files -
electronic, image, and
hybrid documents. Generic
OCR technology required the PDFs to be rendered to images and then re-OCR’d, losing critical
information such as
bookmarks, tables of
contents and hyperlinks. The state government agency needed to ensure that all text within a
document was indexed as
well as preserve
key PDF attributes in order to maintain the integrity of their vital documents.
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The United States Food and Drug Administration needed a solution to
help manage the large volume of documents in its OpenText Documentum® repository.
Their documents existed in many formats, which forced the agency to support multiple viewers in
order to access all the different file types. In addition, the ability to search on documents
in the repository was extremely limited since the documents were images with no searchable text,
making it difficult and time-consuming to locate and retrieve specific documents.
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Hargraves McConnell & Costigan manages a high volume of paper-based
documents on a daily
basis. Their scanned documents are often
large, preventing effective access and transmission. Additionally the documents are not
searchable, necessitating
long and costly
processing. Locating text within multi-page image files was a time consuming and inefficient
task. Although the firm
had previously
implemented their own OCR engine to remedy the issue, they found that the engine would crash
when processing larger
files. It took 8 hours
to process a batch of files and required employees to wait all day for the job to finish. This
prompted the firm to
look for an OCR solution that
could quickly and reliably handle large volumes of documents.
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Ask most people what comes to mind when they think of Hawaii and it’s
likely to be palm
trees, sandy beaches and sun. But Hawaii is also a highly entrepreneurial state populated with
many small businesses
and a lot of rental properties. So it’s no wonder that the State of Hawaii Department of
Taxation processes over a
million tax forms each year. Which is why the staff were interested in anything they could do
to speed up
processing time and cut down on errors caused by manual data entry or scanning. They turned to
Ultraforms®
technology by Foxit to add the automatic data-capturing and accuracy of 2D barcodes to their
highest volume tax
forms.
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With a balance sheet total in excess of nine billion euros, the
Kreissparkasse Ludwigsburg
is the second largest savings bank of its kind in Germany. Working closely with private
customers, corporate clients
and municipalities in the Ludwigsburg district has built them into an organization with account
deposits of more
than 5.9 billion euros, an asset portfolio of 4.3 billion euros and nearly 770,000 customer
accounts.
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Residents of Erlangen, Germany, are quite Internet savvy. More than 70
percent of residents
have Internet access –above the average of just 66% for the entire country – and they expect
their city government
to offer comprehensive online services. To meet its constituents’ needs, the city established
its eGovernment Center
in early 2002 in part to support electronic processing of documents. The employees of the
eGovernment Center are
responsible for planning and implementing e-government projects, including infrastructure
projects such as a
geographic information system (GIS), document management, forms servers and a virtual mail room.
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First, customers apply for the TK's bonus programme and record their
participation in
healthy activities in their bonus booklets. These include early-warning and pre-emptive
checkups, health courses and
sports activities. There are four different bonus booklets depending on age group: up to 14
years, 15 to 24 years,
25 to 49 years and 50+ years. Depending on the number of activities completed, customers can
receive three tiers of
cash reward.
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With more than six million insured persons, DAK-Gesundheit is one of
the leading German
health insurance companies. Incoming mail is digitized in so-called DigiCenters located in
Berlin, Essen and
Hamburg. As of today, 80% of DAK-Gesundheit's incoming mail is digitally processed. These
primarily include
certificates of incapacity for work, treatment and cost plans, payment slips for sickness
benefits and applications
of any kind. The three locations process an average of 90,000 mail items every day. The data of
approximately one
third of the mail items is automatically read out via OCR/ICR and processed further.
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First American Bank is an Illinois-chartered, privately held,
full-service bank with nearly
50 Chicago area locations and more than $2.5 billion in assets.
They required a full functioned, secure PDF solution to implement paperless office workflows,
allowing them to
easily create, organize, combine, and email PDF packages to their customers.
They also required the solution to perform well in their Citrix environment.
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Goodfellow Brothers Inc. (GBI) is a family-owned business with more
than 90 years of
experience in the construction industry. GBI was searching for a high performance PDF solution
that automated their business processes to efficiently implement their paperless office
workflows, such as scanning,
creating, modifying, organizing, and compressing PDF documents. They also needed to reduce their
overall operation
costs.
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loomion's flagship product, loomion twelve, is a solution that allows
board members to
easily access relevant information in a secure environment.
loomion required a rich-feature PDF Software Development Kit that could easily integrate with
twelve to provide a
powerful and high performance environment to view and annotate PDF documents.
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The Simons Firm, LLP, provides sophisticated legal representation for
local and national
clients throughout New Mexico. As an attorney firm, working with PDF isn't a convenience, it is
a necessity. The
Simons Law Firm required
an efficient content management PDF solution for scanning, converting, combining, commenting
(annotating),
protecting, and redacting their legal PDF documents.
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The Voice Dream Reader is a text to speech mobile app that lets people
listen to PDF
documents, eBooks, Web pages and a slew of other document formats. As the app was gaining
popularity, users started
requesting more features. “I choose Foxit since it worked, was affordable, and uniquely
accommodated to my business
needs and business model. Foxit provided more sophisticated technology that enabled me to do
things the others could
not.” said Winston Chen, founder at Voice Dream.
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The City of West Linn provides needed services, utilities, and
infrastructure to the
citizens of West Linn, Oregon. The Information Technology (IT) department started a new project
to replace all of
their existing PCs,
which required replacing existing PDF licenses that were tied to the old PCs. They required an
alternative PDF
solution that is cost effective and provides a balance of features, quality, and price to
standardize on a single
solution. This solution
had to deliver on the organization's goal to automate their process and document management to
become a paperless
office.
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