Version
6
Industrial Strength PDF Conversion
If you need bulk conversion
of PDF documents to any text or image format, Argus presents the ideal, "industrial
strength" solution.
The following pages detail the purpose and effects of each of the bundled configurations.
Some Argus Customers...
- Amazon Inc.
- Associated Newspapers Ltd.
- Cerisent Corp.
- City Pages LLC.
- Defense Intelligence Agency (US)
- IP.com, Inc.
- Infocon International Ltd.
- Mark Logic Corporation
- MarketResearch.com
- Morgan Stanley
- Proquest Information & Learning
- Thomson Inc.
- Trinity Mirror Plc.
- VersusLaw Inc.
- Vertis Inc.
- WebMD Inc.
Minneapolis, USA
Information Macros
Argus also offers a large set of meta-data macros enabling you to extract and embed PDF-specific information in your output.
The macros cover things such as page number, title, filename, font names etc. You can even extract proprietary embedded fields from the information dictionary if your current system requires it.
For Version 6
This release keeps Argus current with the latest developments in the PDF format.
- Improved support for latest versions of PDF
- Broader platform coverage (Intel Solaris, latest Linux, MacOSX)
- Support for JPEG2000 and JBIG2 image exports
- Improved rendering with transparency support
- New macros for simple arithmetic operations - ADD, DIV, SUB, MULT
Argus accurately converts the majority of PDF document types including financial/report based, newspaper/magazines, books and even structured PDF.
It comes with a selection of pre-configured output schemes including HTML and RTF which may be extended, modified or completely re-written to produce any text-based output format required.
With its built-in rendering engine, image export and scaling facilities, the software can also handle any aspect of image generation or conversion you need.
Argus is packaged as a command-line driven Solaris (Sparc), Linux (x86), or Windows application. The stand-alone application does not require any Adobe software and can operate comfortably on a "headless" server machine using on-demand script calls or via its built-in spooler.
Features
- Export & reflow text in any format
- Export tabular data retaining layout
- Export PDF Forms data - the fields and their contents
- Export text via article thread
- Export embedded photos as EPS, Tiff, JPEG, PNG or BMP
- Export photos as Photoshop EPS with clip paths
- Export images with original OPI data (if available)
- Export structured/tagged PDF to XML
- Superb page layout retention in HTML and RTF
- Render at any resolution & colour depth to any of the above formats
- Render documents as multi-page Tiff
- Built-in spooler for totally automated operation
- Includes C/C++/Visual Basic software development kit (SDK)
- Compatible with all versions of PDF
- Supports 40-bit and 128-bit encrypted documents
- Supports all standard text encodings e.g. UTF-8, BIG-5, Shift-JIS
Flexibility
Argus allows you to re-configure every aspect of the PDF conversion down to the level of individual tags, line-breaks and analysis behaviour. This means that it is possible to generate text output in almost any format you require whether it be a proprietary tagging scheme of your own or a standard markup language.
The package includes an extensive set of pre-configured schemes including:
- configurations for text, HTML and RTF that re-flow the output
- HTML and RTF configurations for preserving layout
- "tabtext" configuration designed for accurate export of tabular data such as stock market reports, inventories and invoices
- "gridText" configuration for retaining layout in plain text output
- article thread export configurations
- image export and page rendering configurations
Software Development Kit - "SDK"
Argus includes a SDK with support for C, C++ and Visual Basic. Using the SDK, the full power of Argus can be seamlessly incorporated into your own Visual Basic applications and "C/C++" programs.
In fact, any application requiring the ability to convert or render PDF documents can be rapidly developed using the simple API provided by the SDK.