Overview
Appligent, Inc., founded in 1988, is one of the oldest and most innovative independent PDF technology companies, with customers across many industries including government, financial services, insurance, manufacturing, publishing, healthcare, education and legal.
We invented PDF redaction and form-flattening, and we were first to market with PDF-specific server applications for forms, stamping, appending, encryption and digital signatures, all available across many server OS platforms.
Our Professional Services unit expanded in 2009 when Appligent merged with Document Solutions, the first electronic document service bureau dedicated to PDF technology. With capabilities ranging from forms development to Section 508 compliance and remediation, scripting, disc development and high-resolution imaging, our professional services unit ensures that you get the most from your investment in document management.
Need customized software? Assistance with forms or PDF accessibility? Yes, we cover all your needs. Let us help you with:
- Server software for management and manipulation of PDF files on a server
- Desktop software for redacting, stamping, splitting and assembling PDF files
- PDF forms programming and development
- Document scripting automation and programming
- PDF accessibility and compliance with Section 508
- Consulting on PDF technology and content deployment
- Repurposing paper based content from books & magazines into high quality digital content
Contact Us
Appligent offers unlimited support by phone and email.
Software
How to buy software
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Email: sales@appligent.com
Phone: (610) 284-4006
Services
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Phone: (610) 284-4006
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Phone: (610) 284-4006
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To better serve you, please call us during our normal business hours, Monday - Friday, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm U.S. EST/EDT. A member of our friendly, knowledgeable support staff will reply as soon as possible, generally within one business day.
International Customers
Customers from locations outside the United States can contact us directly by phone or e-mail or connect with one of our many resellers.
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Headquarters Office
22 East Baltimore Avenue, Lansdowne, PA 19050 U.S.A.
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Appligent Resellers
United StatesAccessAgility Catalyst Technology Group USA Enterprise Technology Solutions GTSI iT1 Minoria Tech
140 South Beach Street, Suite 310
Daytona Beach, FL 32114-4409
800-679-7119
n2grate PCM-G Softchoice SoftwareOne, Inc. World Wide Technology CompuCom Systems, Inc. GC Micro Corporation Insight Logistics365, Inc. New Tech Solutions, Inc. SHI International Software Information Resource Corp Zones, Inc.
AustriaUnycom AustraliaAcronymIT Aquion Pty
Canada Longview Systems PCM Canada - Edmonton Managed IT Company Microserve Softchoice |
FranceNaelan GermanyActino Software GmbH Compuwave GmbH McLicense GmbH SOS Software Service GmbH Comparex Deutschland AG DataPerform GmbH SoftwareOne Deutschland GmbH
IndiaIntcom Systems Pty. Ltd. IrelandSHI Global IT Solutions Ireland Ltd
IsraelAnyWare E-Commerce LTD Software Sources Ltd.
SpainRambla Informatica, S.L.
United KingdomAcademia Group DistributorX Limited (resellers only) SHI Corporation UK Limited Altia-ABM QBS Software Ltd |
If you would like to deal with a reseller in other areas, please contact our Sales Department for assistance.
Appligent OEM Partners
Some customers prefer an integration, development or deployment model which doesn’t fit our standard commercial software license.
Appligent can meet your needs with a variety of licensing models ranging from SaaS implementations to source-code to libraries.
Please contact Sales at 610.284.4006, or via email at sales@appligent.com to discuss your needs.
Following are some of the companies who have integrated Appligent software into their own products:
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Appligent Customers
Appligent Document Solutions has served thousands of organizations with PDF technology and services since 1993. Just a few of those organizations are listed here.
Some clients have offered their testimonials, others have allowed us to write case studies describing the software solution and/or professional services we provided. Case studies can be found by clicking on the Case Studies link at the top of the page.
Associations, Institutes & Societies
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
- American Society of Plant Biologists
- American Society of Zoo Veterinarians (AAZV)
- The Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church
- Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- International Association of Assessing Officers
- International Code Council (ICC)
- National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
- The Psychometric Society
Business Services
- Core Business Solutions
- ExpertPlan
- International Compliance Information Exchange (iCiX)
- Knowledge Transfer International
- The Olsen Group
Education
- Case Western Reserve University
- Duke University
- Louisiana State University
- Mount Olive College
- New York University
- Princeton Review
- Stanford University
- Tulane University
- University of California
- University of Florida
- University of Minnesota
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- University of Oklahoma
- The University of Queensland
- University of Rochester
- University of Saskatchewan
- University of Texas
- Yale University
Financial Services
- Aegon
- AIG
- American Express
- Aon
- Axa Group
- Bank of America
- Barclays
- Charles Schwab
- CIGNA
- Cooperative Finance Corporation
- Credit Suisse
- Deutsche Bank
- E*Trade
- Fidelity Investments
- GE Capital
- Goldman Sachs & Co.
- JP Morgan
- MasterCard International
- Morgan Stanley
- Mutual of Omaha
- NA Insurance
- Prudential
- Travelers
- Zurich Life
Software & Technology
- Adobe Systems
- Amber Road
- Apple
- EMC Corporation
- HP Autonomy
- OpenText
- Qualcomm
Government
- Association of Bay Area Governments
- Canadian Provincial Governments including British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Northwest Territories
- Canadian Federal Government including
- City of New York
- East Bay Municipal Utility District
- Government Printing Office
- International Trade Commission
- NASA
- National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
- NRO
- Oakland Police Department
- Queensland Govenrment (Australia)
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- U.S. Courts
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- U.S. Department of Defense
- U.S. Department of Energy
- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
- U.S. Department of the Interior
- U.S. Department of Justice
- U.S. Department of the Treasury
- Victorian Government (Australia)
- World Bank
- World Health Organization
Legal
- Bull, Housser & Tupper, LLP
- Bulkley, Richardson & Gelinas, LLP
- Continuing Education of the Bar - California (CEB)
- Dawson Law Chambers
- Gwilliam, Ivary, Chiosso, Cavalli & Brewer
- Lashly & Baer, P.C.
- Lexis Nexis
- Morrison & Foerster, LLP
- Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
- Winston & Strawn, LLP
Manufacturing & Engineering
- Aerojet
- Airbus
- American Honda Motor Co.
- AT&T
- Boeing
- Crane Aerospace & Electronics
- France Telecom
- General Electric
- Goodrich
- Hewlett Packard (HP)
- Hitachi Instruments
- Kohler
- Lockheed Martin
- Motorola
- Peugeot
- PPG Industries
- Pratt & Whitney
- Raytheon
- Sony
Pharmaceutical & Medical
- Abbott Laboratories
- Amgen
- AstraZeneca
- Bayer
- CVS/Caremark Corporation
- General Medical Council
- Johnson & Johnson
- Merck
- Novartis
- Pfizer
- Proctor & Gamble
- TEVA Pharmaceuticals
- WebMD
Publishing
- Academic Press
- Allen Press
- Annual Reviews
- The Blue Book of Building & Construction
- Environmental Building News
- Hanley-Wood, LLC
- Lonely Planet Publications
- Scientific American / Nature Publishing
- The Taunton Press
- W.B. Saunders
Appligent Customer Testimonials
A few words are worth a lot. For more about how we helped many of these organization, please review our Case Studies.
The Blue Book
“pdfHarmony proved itself on the very first night. We just set up a simple watched folder and run all the files through pdfHarmony first. The number of exceptions has dropped substantially,”
-Ken Keeler, The Blue Book.
Foster Wheeler
“Appligent’s command line driven products were easy to use and integrate with the ColdFusion scripting environment,” said Technical Project Leader Theresa Temple who added “the development time was really fast and bug free and development of the workflow/approval phase of project only took 27 days.”
“The way the Appligent technology appends the signature page to the original document, making it an integral part of that document provides Procurement with the functionality we needed to meet legal and business requirements.”
DDM Marketing and Communication
“Appligent’s AppendPDF Pro gave our development team the flexibility, scalability and power it needed to build an enterprise level solution in a very short time.”
ELDEC, Corp.
“The return on our investment was immediate because AppendPDF Pro enabled us to resolve our document processing issues right away.”
Core Business Solutions
“FDFMerge enabled us to develop an interactive forms workflow application very quickly. It saved us months of effort in developing the PDF handling components of the system and allowed our programmers to focus on the core document management functionality.”
University of Texas
“FDFMerge gave us the tool we needed to build a platform independent automated solution for managing forms.”
Zurich Life
“Appligent’s FDF Merge was chosen for the project’s PDF-generation process and was installed during Z-App’s alpha development phase.”
Dawson Law Chambers
“Redax is the smart technology person’s black ink and scissors”.
American Flyers
“… has given American Flyers quality and consistency in our online product that the ‘experts’ said could not be attained. In addition, great service and technical assistance helped us get our unique aviation chart service off the ground.”
Asset International
“My company, which publishes trade magazines, needed to convert paper magazines, EPS tables, and high-ASCII text to HTML for our Web-site in order to create a back-issue archive. Considering the scope of this project (thousands of files) and the mix of formats, Appligent Document Solutions did a timely, cost-effective job of creating something of lasting value.”
Cooperative Finance Corporation
“I was very satisfied with the work … performed for CFC. The staff we worked with were very professional and responsive and the product was of high quality. The staff did a good job explaining what we could expect in the work product and we were pleasantly surprised by the cost when it was lower than your original estimates. We plan to use Appligent Document Solutions in the future.”
Decision Research
“… saved us countless hours riffling through file cabinets searching for old documents. Now, comparative analysis of survey data is as easy as clicking a button. Our CD-ROM is a real time-saver and a great organizational tool.”
Annual Reviews
“We had 600 pages of chemistry and math to make ready for the Web. We had no usable files, and our accuracy spec made OCR look futile. Enter Appligent Document Solutions, who consulted with us at lifesaving length, then clobbered all the project’s barriers. Our satisfaction with the resulting files (astonishingly faithful to the complex printed originals) was complete.”
The Journal of Light Construction
“Thank you again for a job well done! … Appligent Document Solutions has done an outstanding job of helping us produce a user-friendly magazine CD-ROM to exacting quality standards. Your staff have been a pleasure to work with and the product continues to be a big hit with our customers … The CD is a beautiful product and one that we will feel very proud of.”
Knowledge Transfer International
“A recent project required that we partner with someone who could deliver cost effective, high quality PDF conversions of a variety of paper based instruction and marketing materials. Highly detailed schematic diagrams with impossibly small type, technical tables, full color glossy sales brochures — from the beginning, Appligent Document Solutions has consistently delivered on all counts. With any PDF project, the vendor and client must walk a fine line balancing quality versus cost effectiveness versus file size versus purpose. As each new challenge came along, … worked with us to make effective, informed decisions.”
Panasonic
“I’ve been very happy with the service I’ve received from Appligent Document Solutions. Work has always been delivered on or before the dates promised. Initially, I was doing the conversions. I quickly realized that my time was valuable and could be better utilized elsewhere. Electronic documents in general have been a great help to Panasonic and our customers appreciate being able to download operating manuals on line! Give Appligent Document Solutions a chance to bring your company into the next century!”
The Psychometric Society
“Our Board of Trustees was so impressed, they increased the price for the CD sets!”
Rauland-Borg
“We’ve been able to count on Appligent Document Solutions as an important resource in our document conversion process. Exemplary service, quick turnaround, very flexible. … I recommend them highly.”
Sybron Chemicals
“Without Appligent Document Solutions, our project would have never paid for itself. Appligent made our solution cost-effective, and helped take our project to a different level. Your service was quick, professional, and very easy. I’ve recommended Appligent to other companies, because your work is the best I’ve seen..
Unitrode Corporation
“…we will definitely use Appligent Document Solutions again.”
U.S. Army Center of Military History
“You are so close to perfect, it’s not even funny”
Voicings Publications
“From project planning through the duplication process, we were always impressed with the care and personal attention given to our CD-ROM projects. … brings a special blend of technical expertise, creativity and flexibility essential to the production process. They treated our material like it was their own.”
Mission
Appligent Document Solutions has a simple objective: to provide enterprise-class software, services and support to organizations implementing PDF technology.
Our software ranges from desktop applications and plug-ins to server applications for high-volume, automated management of PDF workflows. Our products and services are used in thousands of different settings, from banking to the military, from publishing to food-processing.
Appligent was founded in 1988 as a company doing custom software applications. We have focused on PDF software development since PDF became available to developers in 1993. We’ve led the PDF space with key innovations in redaction, document security, form-flattening and other areas. Appligent was first-to-market with PDF redaction, Bates numbering, server based forms-processing, form flattening and more. Our software is highly scalable and provides extremely fast performance on the leading OS platforms.
Our Services are focused on the efficient use of PDF and range from remediation of PDF files for Accessibility and Section 508 compliance to PDF forms development and custom software development. In addition to our commercial software, Appligent continues to develop custom plug-ins for Adobe Acrobat for customers as well as develop custom applications and products. We can also provide training for in-house developers on using the Acrobat SDK. For a complete overview of our Services, please see the Services tab on our website.
Appligent People
Appligent Inc. employs a wide range of talented individuals in development, services, and support roles.
Virginia Gavin is President & COO. Virginia has more than 30 years of management experience in healthcare and technology. She has been an integral part of the company since 1991 and is responsible for overall company management as well as Sales. Virginia is actively involved in local non-profit organizations. She is a past-President of the Lansdowne Economic Development Corporation and a Board member of the Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra.
Mark Gavin is Chief Technology Officer and software architect. His experience with PDF dates from 1993, the year PDF was introduced. Mark invented PDF redaction in 1997 and is also the creator of several other first-ever PDF applications, including Appligent’s SecurSign and FDFMerge, EMC’s Documentum IRM for PDF, and Liquent’s CoreDossier. Mark leads Appligent’s development team and has been active in the AIIM ISO Standards committees for PDF Reference (ISO 32000), PDF Archive (PDF/A ISO 19005) and PDF Universal Accessibility (PDF/UA ISO 14289).
Mr. Gavin maintains a PDF related blog on the Appligent Labs web site and contributes to the TalkingPDF web site. In his spare time, Mr. Gavin studies Chinese.
Learn more about Mark Gavin
Jeanne Petty has been working in PDF related services for 20 years with both Document Solutions Inc. and Appligent Inc. Starting in the early days with Adobe Capture, her initial work with PDF was primarily focused on document imaging, OCR and the attempt to move from paper to electronic documents. Today most of our clients are starting with existing PDFs and her services work focuses on creating fillable forms, the use of JavaScript to automate workflows using PDF as well as assisting our clients in integrating Appligent server software into their PDF-based solutions.
Jeanne has worked closely with professionals in the legal, publishing and food safety industries as well as government agencies and a variety of small businesses to assist them in leveraging the power of PDF. She primarily acts as a project manager but is involved with our services clients from the early stages of developing a solution, throughout the execution of that solution and provides ongoing technical support.
Corporate Citizenship
Corporate citizenship is fundamental to Appligent’s character and the way we run our company. Corporate citizenship at Appligent means creating positive changes in all we do; through the products and services we provide; and, the way in which we operate our business in the interconnected world in which we all live.
Appligent is very involved in our local community: giving time, resources and money to local organizations.
Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra
Lansdowne Economic Development Corporation
Historic Lansdowne Theater Corporation
History
Appligent, Inc., founded in 1988, is one of the oldest and most innovative independent PDF technology companies in the world.
| Year | Appligent Document Solutions | |
| 2011 | SecurSign becomes the first commercial server digital signing product to support PDF/A | |
| 2010 | Appligent Document Solutions completes transitioning all applications to the Adobe PDF Library. | |
| 2009 | Appligent Document Solutions releases pdfHarmony to harmonize large collections of PDF documents. Appligent Document Solutions is first-to-market with 3rd party support for AES 256-bit password PDF encryption in a server application. | |
| 2008 | Appligent and Document Solutions, Inc. merge to form Appligent Document Solutions | |
| Appligent | Document Solutions, Inc. | |
| 2007 | Appligent is first to deliver a redaction product which supports "Redaction by Category"; allowing the user to repurpose a single work document to produce redacted documents for multiple target audiences. | DSI introduces the Forms Transfer Convention (FTC) to preserve complete PDF form-states via FDF. |
| 2006 | Appligent is the first third party developer to port Acrobat plug-ins to the Nuance PDF Converter Professional environment. | |
| 2005 | AppendPDF Pro, FDFMerge, FormAssembler, SecurSign and StampPDF Batch certified as Ready for IBM's eServer with Linux (R) for xSeries, pSeries, iSeries and zSeries architectures. | |
| 2004 | Appligent is first to support PDF form templates for mass generation of data intensive electronic forms. | |
| 2003 | Appligent's Redax Enterprise Server is the first server-based solution for redacting PDF documents. | DSI introduces the Advanced all-PDF disc interface, allowing custom index databases to be embedded within PDF files. |
| 2002 | Appligent is first to market with its SecurSign application for digitally signing PDF files consistent with the Adobe Digital Signature Mechanism. | |
| 2001 | Digital Applications, Inc. changes its name to Appligent, Inc. FDFMerge is released on IBM OS/390 | DSI is first to market with Section 508 compliance services for PDF. |
| 2000 | Appligent (Digital Applications) releases revolutionary form flattening in FDFMerge 3.0. Form flattening removes the fillable fields and stamps the data directly into the PDF document. | DSI is first in the world to offer accessibility services for PDF content and completes conversion of historical United Nations Yearbooks to PDF. |
| 1999 | Appligent is first to release stamping and Bates numbering for PDF documents beginning with StampPDF Plug-in 1.2 and StampPDF Batch 1.1. | DSI introduces "Brochure Grade" document imaging standards. |
| 1998 | Appligent (Digital Applications) is first to release server-based PDF applications: AppendPDF, StampPDF Batch and FDFMerge. | In one of the first large-scale AcroForms implementations, DSI adds form fields to 30,000 pages for a major insurance broker. |
| 1997 | Appligent (Digital Applications) is first to redact PDF with the release of the Redax plug-in for Adobe Acrobat. | DSI introduces MultiResolution PDF; maximum image and text quality with the smallest possible file-size for scanned content. |
| Appligent (Digital Applications) creates the Acrobat portion of Authentica's PageRecall application, then the most secure PDF security technology available. | DSI introduces "All-PDF" and "Heuristic Indexing System" disc interfaces for publications and document collections. | |
| 1996 | Appligent (Digital Applications) releases our first commercial plug-ins DateD & TimedOut. These are configured as an Administrative plug-in and a Reader plug-in. | Document Solutions is founded as the world's first dedicated PDF services company. |
| 1994 | <table 10"="" cellpadding="10" style="border-color: #99acc2; border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid;">Appligent (Digital Applications) is first to develop a stand-alone PDF viewer for presentation to the National Institute of Standards and Technology to prove PDF files can be viewed without using Adobe Systems technology. | |
| 1993 | Adobe Systems releases PDF 1.0. Appligent (then Digital Applications, Inc.) builds a PDF parser to extract document structure information from PDF files, building search and analysis tools for new drug applications to the US FDA. | |