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Small companies looking for a solution to inspect and process PDF files
About pdfToolbox
pdfToolbox offers powerful, dynamic, and easy-to-integrate PDF processing, from quick visual inspection and fixing to fully unattended processing of thousands of files. Using rock-solid Adobe technology pdfToolbox provides checking and fixing of even very complex problems, color management, impositioning, conversion to and from PDF, and more. pdfToolbox technology is used by small companies, large publishers, and print providers as well as OEMs that integrate the technology in their own solutions. pdfToolbox Desktop is a manual PDF preflight and correction application, available as a plug-in in Adobe Acrobat Pro or as a standalone application. pdfToolbox offers prepress operators an easy-to-use interface for all pre-press actions, which gets you to each action you might need in three simple steps. You can easily customize this further, so you have your favorite actions at your fingertips.
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callas software GmbH
Founded: 1995
Germany
www.callassoftware.com/en/products/pdftoolbox
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