Develop Customer Relations Management, electronic document distribution, Selective Reprint, Archival/Retrieval systems, integrate output documents into imaging, COLD and Enterprise Content Management systems and Document Sort and Merge applications.

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PRO Dynamic Document API

In today's competitive business document solutions market, it is necessary both to deliver robust and flexible capabilities and to bring down the cost and time to market of new output delivery solutions, whether they are web and/or paper based. The most effective way of achieving those objectives is to reduce the complexity involved in developing the output delivery solutions.

That's where CrawfordTech's PRO Dynamic Document API comes in. The PRO Dynamic Document API reduces the overall costs by shortening the design, development and implementation time of solutions. The PRO Dynamic Document API also delivers the capability for dynamic, interactive, personalized processing of very high volume business data.

The PRO Dynamic Document API is a cross-platform, easy-to-use interface that allows programmers to create single and multithreaded applications to extract data from print files, transform print files from one format to another or create electronic display formats such as PDF and HTML from documents in print files.

Now, developers can easily and quickly integrate their print files with computer applications by using the PRO Dynamic Document API. Developers no longer have to become the experts on all of the different print format types such as Xerox Metacode, AFP, PCL, HTML, TIFF and PDF, in order to harness the power of the information and formatting locked up inside print files. There are both Java and C/C++ versions of the PRO Dynamic Document API available, so whatever your applications are built in, there is a fit.

The PRO Dynamic Document API is easy to integrate - all the customer needs to do is create one generic interface containing high level conversion/selection functions, compile it and link it to the PRO Dynamic Document API library or DLL. This new integrated application can then interact with CrawfordTech's PRO Suite functionalities to transform documents into different formats, create indexes, merge pages, retrieve documents from Enterprise Content Management systems, manipulate pages and perform a host of other needed functions.

The PRO Dynamic Document API achieves the highest performance available by using our high performance best of breed print stream processing technology, which has been optimized to run at high speed on virtually all computer platforms. The thread-safe design of the PRO Dynamic Document API allows the customer's application to support multiple function instances simultaneously for use in large multi-user applications. Using an extensive set of parameters, the PRO Dynamic Document API delivers easy integration and customization of the system environment.

The PRO Dynamic Document API works seamlessly with PRO Suite products, including:

The PRO Document Enhancer, a powerful document re-engineering tool
The PRO Indexer, capable of indexing even the most complex documents
The PRO Splitter, delivering the ability to split output files into customer-specific documents and/or batch them into precisely defined groupings
The PRO Concatenator, allowing the user to consolidate or concatenate the output files

With the PRO Dynamic Document API, print applications can be fully integrated into many solutions, including:

Customer Relations Management systems
Electronic document distribution
Archival/Retrieval
Document Composition Systems
Integration of output documents into imaging, COLD and Enterprise Content Management systems
Document Sort and Merge

The PRO Dynamic Document API runs on the following platforms:

Windows XP, NT, ME, 2000, 2003, Vista
AIX
HP-UX
Solaris
Linux

The PRO Dynamic Document API supports the widest range of print stream formats.

The input formats include:

Xerox metacode output from applications such as Exstream, DocuMerge, Compuset, CSF and DOC1
Xerox LCDS print streams
Advanced Function Presentation (AFP)
PCL
PDF
TIFF

The output formats include:

Xerox metacode
Advanced Function Presentation (AFP)
PCL
PostScript
PDF
ASCII Text
XML metacode
HTML
TIFF
PNG