Tag: security

What You Should Know About The Electronic Signature

In the digital age, we try to do as many things as possible online. This has been made very easy over the past years, including the possibility to sign documents and make contracts over the internet.

Thus, today, we want to have a closer look at the electronic signature.

Find out how to use a photo or scan as your signature.  Continue reading What You Should Know About The Electronic Signature

Different PDF Passwords

PDF is an amazing document format, especially when it comes to file-safety. By now, you surely know, that you can easily protect your own PDF files with a password quite easily.

Check out our handy tutorial on how to password-protect a PDF.

What you might not be aware of, is that there are different kinds of PDF passwords. This is what we will have a look at today.  Continue reading Different PDF Passwords

How To Remove PDF Password Protection [Tutorial]

PDF is the perfect format to share documents, scans and more online. Due to the retained formatting, they can be transferred between systems and still look exactly like they are supposed to. In order to keep the information in your document safe, you can protect them with a password.

What if you need information from a password-protected PDF though? If you know it, you can actually remove the password!

This tutorial will explain how you can unlock any PDF file as long as you know the password. Continue reading How To Remove PDF Password Protection [Tutorial]

Hidden Metadata & What It Says About Your File

All files contain hidden metadata. Images, documents, videos, audio files, e-books – there are no exceptions. In many cases, you are not aware of this hidden information since it can not be accessed at first glance. It is not obvious when you open or view a file, and even right-clicking the file and checking the details reveal only half of what there is to find.

With the right tool, however, everyone can check the metadata of your file. And this can be very scary! Many of us want to know exactly what they share with the world when posting a photo or video online. Thus, you should always check your file before uploading it to a public space or sending it out to someone else.

Even if this doesn’t scare you too much, aren’t you curious what information is stored in your file? Read on to find out!  Continue reading Hidden Metadata & What It Says About Your File

How Banks & Other Businesses Benefit From Switching To PDF

The work of many businesses – like banks and financial institutions, but also companies in other fields – is very paper-heavy. Files, transactions, user and client data, many of such records spend their lifetime as paper documents, stacked away in folders, filling shelves and archives.

It is common for many businesses to keep their records over several years before they can safely get rid of them. Thus, the number of documents and unused papers in an archive grow continuously.

This article will present a simple method how this amount of paper and the associated costs can be eliminated or at least reduced: by switching to PDF.  Continue reading How Banks & Other Businesses Benefit From Switching To PDF

How Your IT Department Can Benefit From One PDF Solution

PDF is a handy and common document format for all kinds of purposes. Personal and private matters can be facilitated and better organized by using PDF. Students and scholars already know of the benefits of PDF documents as well.

What we want to look at today in particular, however, is a way how PDF can help companies and business. More specifically, how the IT department of smaller and bigger companies benefits from using PDF documents and one PDF solution like PDF2Go.  Continue reading How Your IT Department Can Benefit From One PDF Solution

10 Benefits Of Using A Cloud Service

Cloud Services have been around since the 1960’s. And yet, it is today that we use it to a greater extend than ever before.

When using PDF2Go, you have the opportunity to use PDF files and other documents from a cloud storage. Likewise, you can upload your edited PDF or converted file to a cloud service.

That’s enough reason to have a closer look at the benefits using such a web storage service has.  Continue reading 10 Benefits Of Using A Cloud Service