We're excited to announce that Pdftools has joined Apryse. Apryse is an established leader in document processing technology. By joining forces, we bring deeper expertise and greater resources to the products you depend on. To our customers, thank you. Your products, team, contracts, and support are unchanged. We look forward to what we can now build together. https://lnkd.in/e6K5RzNu
Pdftools
Information Technology & Services
Stadtkreis 3 Wiedikon, Zurich 1,432 followers
Swiss precision developer components and enterprise solutions for PDF and PDF/A
About us
Pdftools develops, maintains, and supports enterprise-grade PDF processing technology at scale. Government agencies, enterprises, and service providers trust our developer components, SDKs, and services to meet compliance requirements, handle high-volume workflows, and manage PDFs efficiently and securely.
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https://www.pdf-tools.com/
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- Information Technology & Services
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
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- Stadtkreis 3 Wiedikon, Zurich
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- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2002
- Specialties
- PDF & PDF/A components and solutions, PDF Developer API, Shell, Services, PDF Rendering & Desktop Tools, PDF Converter & Validation, PDF/A Manipulation, PDF Optimization, PDF Security & Signature, PDF Software, Digital Archive, PDF SDK, and PDF Technology
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Trustworthy AI in regulated environments isn't about ticking a box; it's a question of accountability, auditability, and where the human stays in the loop. If you're thinking through what "trustworthy" actually means for AI in legal and compliance workflows, this is the room to be in. Details below.
⚖️ Legal teams handling regulatory filings don't want to hear "we added AI." Building AI Smart Redact taught me that fast. Customers assumed AI meant generative AI. But generative output isn't auditable or predictable enough for flagging sensitive content in legal documents. So we chose differently: ✅ ML/NER ✅ A deterministic rules engine ✅ Human-in-the-loop, by design, not as an afterthought The technical choice was easy once we were honest about what trust required. The harder questions stuck with me. How much does a user need to understand a decision to trust it? Who's responsible when automation gets it wrong? Next week I'm working through them with Vibha Mohan (Group Legal Counsel) and Eduard Schäli (VP Engineering, Smallpdf) at a Trustworthy AI Circle event organized by Dr.Anna Fedorova. Legal, product, and engineering in the same room. Come if you're asking the same questions. 👇 https://luma.com/cets9wmo
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Great to have Lidia Murasan representing us at #NextcloudSummit26 in Munich. Keeping full control over sensitive documents is exactly what we're about, whether on-premise or on sovereign German infrastructure through our partnership with IONOS, with no CLOUD Act exposure and full EU compliance.
That‘s a wrap 🙌🏻 Ich hatte heute das Vergnügen beim #NextcloudSummit26 in München teilzunehmen. Besonders gefreut hat mich, dass ich endlich meine Partner & Kollegen von IONOS persönlich treffen konnte. Der Austausch mit den Partnern sowie andere Teilnehmer war extrem wertvoll und hat richtig Spaß gemacht. Neben vielen neuen Impulsen konnte ich mein Wissen rund um Open Source nochmal deutlich vertiefen – besonders zu den Themen Datensouveränität, Sicherheit und der Zukunft selbstbestimmter Cloud-Lösungen. Auch hier setzt Pdftools an: Als Schweizer Spezialist für professionelle PDF- und PDF/A-Lösungen ermöglicht das Unternehmen die sichere, revisionssichere und langfristig archivierbare Verarbeitung sensibler Dokumente – vollständig selbst gehostet oder On-Premise. Mit leistungsstarken SDKs für Conversion, Validierung, Signatur und Archivierung bleibt die komplette Hoheit über die Daten bei Ihnen. Kein Cloud-Anbieter aus Übersee, keine Abhängigkeiten – stattdessen maximale Datensouveränität und Compliance bei höchster Performance. Perfekt für Unternehmen, die Nextcloud & Co. mit professioneller, datenschutzkonformer Dokumentenverarbeitung kombinieren wollen. Ein großes Dankeschön an das Nextcloud-Team für die tolle Organisation und an das IONOS-Team für den herzlichen und fachlich starken Austausch! 🙌🏻 Open Source lebt von solchen Momenten des persönlichen Kennenlernens und Zusammenarbeitens. —— That’s a wrap 🙌🏻 I had the pleasure of attending the #NextcloudSummit26 in Munich today. I was especially delighted to finally meet my partners and colleagues from IONOS in person. The exchange with partners and other participants was extremely valuable and a lot of fun. In addition to many new impulses, I was able to significantly deepen my knowledge of Open Source — especially on the topics of data sovereignty, security, and the future of self-determined cloud solutions. This is also where Pdftools comes in: As a Swiss specialist for professional PDF and PDF/A solutions, the company enables the secure, revision-proof, and long-term archivable processing of sensitive documents — fully self-hosted or on-premise. With powerful SDKs for conversion, validation, signing, and archiving, you retain complete control over your data. No overseas cloud provider, no dependencies — instead, maximum data sovereignty and compliance with top performance. Perfect for companies that want to combine Nextcloud and similar solutions with professional, privacy-compliant document processing. A big thank you to the Nextcloud team for the excellent organization and to the IONOS team for the warm and highly professional exchange! Open Source thrives on moments like these — personal meetings and real collaboration.
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Nehmen Sie an unserer Live-Demo von AI Smart Redact teil – unserer selbst gehosteten Lösung zur automatisierten Schwärzung personenbezogener Daten. Ekansh Anand, Product Manager bei Pdftools, zeigt in 45 Minuten, wie die Lösung sensible Inhalte in über 36 Entitätstypen erkennt, wie die Human-in-the-Loop-Prüfoberfläche funktioniert und welche Deployment-Optionen es gibt, einschließlich Air-Gapped-Umgebungen. Bringen Sie Ihre Fragen mit, wir haben Zeit für eine Live-Fragerunde.
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We're running a live walkthrough of AI Smart Redact, our self-hosted PII redaction solution. Join Ekansh Anand, Product Manager at Pdftools, for a 45-minute demo covering how it detects sensitive content across 36+ entity types, the human-in-the-loop review interface, and deployment options, including air-gapped environments. Bring your questions, we'll have time for live Q&A.
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We're running a 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗱𝗮𝗰𝘁 on May 27 (English) and June 3 (German). Join Ekansh Anand, Product Manager at Pdftools, for a 45-minute walkthrough of our self-hosted PII redaction solution for teams handling sensitive documents at scale. We'll cover: • How AI Smart Redact detects sensitive content across 36 built-in entity types • How to add custom entities with easy configuration • The human-in-the-loop review interface (no custom development required) • Deployment options, including air-gapped, on-premises environments If your team is manually reviewing documents for PII, sanitizing files before LLM ingestion, or building a defensible audit trail for redaction decisions, this one's for you. Bring your questions, we'll have time for live Q&A. 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁.
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Jahrelang standen Unternehmen in Deutschlands regulierten Branchen vor einem Dilemma: Entweder sie nutzten eine Standard-Cloud-Infrastruktur und nahmen damit das Risiko des CLOUD Act in Kauf, oder sie führten die Dokumentenverarbeitung vor Ort durch und trugen die damit verbundenen Kosten. Wir haben uns mit IONOS zusammengeschlossen, um Ihren Teams einen dritten Weg zu bieten. Wenn Sie den Service auf IONOS in Deutschland betreiben, läuft der Pdftools Conversion Service zu 100 % in deutschen Rechenzentren, die der Norm ISO 27001 entsprechen und kein Risiko im Zusammenhang mit dem CLOUD Act bergen. Profitieren Sie von der Skalierbarkeit der Cloud - mit Rechtshoheit über Ihre Dokumentenverarbeitung. Link im ersten Kommentar.
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AI Smart Redact was built for teams that need to remove PII from documents at scale, whether for compliance, external sharing, or preparing data for AI. Training an LLM on internal documents means that every piece of sensitive information must be removed first. Not just masked, but removed. If even just a name survives in a hidden text layer, the dataset is compromised. AI Smart Redact handles this with a three-stage process: AI detection surfaces PII candidates across 36 entity types, a human reviewer approves each one, and the file is rebuilt from scratch. Only approved content makes it into the new document. The detection engine pairs a compact NER model with configurable regex, achieving an F1 score of up to 98%. Self-hosted deployment means unredacted documents never leave your infrastructure. If a worker crashes mid-processing, a crypto-erasure system destroys the encryption key, and the file becomes permanently inaccessible. AI Smart Redact is now live. Learn more in the first comment. #AIRedaction #DataPrivacy #DocumentSecurity #Compliance #PDFRedaction
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We don’t post much here (call us a bit of a shy company) but that’s about to change. 🫣 We’re hiring a Senior Technical Product Manager (Core SDK) to work on one of the world’s leading PDF engines, used by governments and mission-critical systems globally. If you enjoy solving complex technical problems with real-world impact - this is your space. Apply at: https://lnkd.in/duvGTacf
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We’re excited to partner with INFOSQUARE and join their ecosystem of premium technology providers. Looking forward to our collaboration 👇
ANNONCE PARTENARIAT : Infosquare x Pdftools Nous sommes fiers d'annoncer notre nouveau partenariat stratégique avec Pdftools, leader mondial des solutions de traitement PDF à grande échelle ! Une expertise de pointe au service de vos enjeux documentaires Pdftools apporte à nos clients une technologie innovante et performante pour : 📄 Traitement PDF à grande échelle - SDK multi-plateformes (.NET, Java, C, Python) pour une intégration rapide et efficace dans vos applications 🔄 Automatisation des workflows - Conversion Service pour traiter de gros volumes documentaires avec précision et rapidité 🔒 Conformité et sécurité - Solutions déployables on-premise et cloud avec gouvernance des données renforcée 🤖 Intelligence artificielle documentaire - Extraction de données PDF et caviardage intelligent pour une utilisation sécurisée avec l'IA Aux côtés d'OpenText, M-Files, SAP et Microsoft, Pdftools vient enrichir notre écosystème de partenaires premium pour offrir à nos clients des solutions toujours plus innovantes et performantes. Cette collaboration nous permet d'accompagner les entreprises dans leurs projets de transformation documentaire, d'automatisation des processus et de valorisation de l'information avec des technologies de classe mondiale. 💼 Vous souhaitez optimiser votre gestion documentaire et vos workflows PDF ? 📧 Contactez-nous pour découvrir comment cette alliance peut transformer vos processus. 🌐 www.infosquaregroup.com #Partenariat #Innovation #PDF #TransformationDigitale #GED #Automatisation #IA #DocumentManagement #Infosquare #PDFTools
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