Top 5 Coding Trends of 2021
The software development industry is changing more rapidly than ever before. With new technology hitting the market on a regular basis, software vendors need to become flexible enough to adapt to the top coding trends if they want to remain competitive. After a tumultuous 2020, the industry has seen a number of key trends emerge […]
Functional Programming Principles with JavaScript
Michael Pardue, Accusoft Senior Software Engineer A lot of the tools and techniques that developers learn in other languages do not translate well. Mocking, dependency injection, code generation, and test coverage all work a little bit differently. Indeed, this means that how one tackles the structure of code needs to change to best grasp the […]
5 Undiscovered Benefits of eDiscovery Software
Although digital solutions are gradually finding their way into legal practices, there is still a great deal of progress that needs to be made with regards to the discovery process. The dramatic growth of electronic documents over the last few decades has seen the emergence of eDiscovery, which involves all electronic aspects of gathering, identifying, […]
Using Barcode Xpress for Linux from Python
Barcode Xpress 13.1 recently released for Linux, Java, and .NET Core, and with it came an exciting new component in the Linux version: official Python support. It has always been possible to use the ctypes module in Python or other modules built upon it to utilize native C libraries, but Barcode Xpress Linux now ships […]
Accusoft Team Takes Second Place at Hackathon for Homelessness
As part of the National Civic Day of Hacking, the Tampa Innovation Alliance hosted the Gimme Shelter Hackathon for Homelessness at the Crossover Church on June 3-5. Accusoft participated in the event with a team made up of VP of Customer Satisfaction, Chris Lubeck and Software Support Engineers, Zak Miller, Jeremy Smith, and James Waugh. […]
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How to Use the Document Pre-Conversion Feature in PrizmDoc
One of the new additions to our recent PrizmDoc v11.0 release was a developer preview of our document pre-conversion feature. This is an exciting new addition, given many of our clients work with thousands—even millions—of large documents and can’t afford to waste even seconds waiting for files to process. Pre-conversion will allow the conversion of […]
How to Convert an Excel File to PDF
Companies have a love/hate relationship with PDFs. While Adobe’s portable file format has been around for decades and remains one of the most popular document types available, some of its best features are overshadowed by frustration around conversion. Faced with a barrage of read-only PDF files or looking for ways to ensure the integrity of […]
5 Reasons to Be Cloud – and Proud
In a previous blog post we discussed misconceptions that information professionals typically have about cloud computing. We went through some of the most common myths one by one, explaining why they’re inaccurate and why, unfortunately, they persist even now among executives across various industries. At Accusoft, we believe in the power of the cloud, and […]
A Brief History of PDF File Viewers
Few file formats are as widely recognized and used as PDF. In fact, PDFs have become so commonplace that it’s hard to imagine a time when they didn’t exist. Most users don’t even give them much thought, knowing that all they need to do is click on the file and trust that their PDF file […]
The Future of Insurtech: How Emerging Technologies Are Reshaping Insurance
Next Generation Native Node: N-API in C++
N-API. Some time ago, way back in the Node JS 0.10.x days, we needed to expose some native libraries previously written in C++ for use by an existing Node JS based service. There were two reasons to reuse this existing C++ code base: The code was already written and debugged so wrapping it made a […]