![]() ![]() Your tax software probably saved a PDF file too. Once you opt out of paper statements, your bank, credit card company, telephone company, and utility will give you links to PDF files for download. I’ve already blogged about using CutePDF to print these to PDF/A. These already have text they just need to be converted to PDF/A. Non-PDF electronic documents like emails, web pages, etc.I’ve found Omni Standard to be pretty good at this. ![]() ![]() These must be scanned and, in order for them to be searchable, have Optical Character Recognition (OCR) applied. There are basically three types of documents that need to be archived: PDF/A-2b, with its support for transparency, solves all that. Increasingly, files that I receive include transparent fonts when these were converted to PDF/A-1b, the fonts were rasterized, the files were no longer searchable, and the the files were very large. Note The 2013 approach created PDF/A-1b files, which do not support transparency. This allows the documents to be indexed so I can quickly find documents when I type in Windows Explorer’s search box. ![]() The PDFs should be searchable, meaning they contain not only images of documents, but strings of text. I want to save all my documents in PDF/A-1b PDF/A-2b archival format so I will be able to open them for years to come. I’m developing a paperless workflow for my home and office. This is a major revision of an article that I wrote in 2013. ![]()
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