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Appligent has a long history of providing bulletproof enterprise-level solutions to corporations and governments worldwide since its founding as a software consultancy in 1988 by Mark Gavin. In 1991 Virginia Gavin joined the company and lead its transition to offering commercial software applications.

Appligent is privately held and is based in Lansdowne, PA in the Greater Philadelphia region. Our customer list is extensive, and includes many of the Fortune 1000, as well as multinational corporations and government agencies in the U.S. and abroad.

Appligent TimeLine

1993
Appligent is first to build a PDF parser to extract document structure information from PDF files to build, search and analysis tools for electronic New Drug Applications to the US FDA.
1994

Appligent was first to develop a stand-alone PDF viewer for presentation to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to prove PDF files can be viewed without using any Adobe technology.
 

1997

Appligent creates the Acrobat portion of Authentica's PageRecall application, currently the most secure PDF security technology available.

1997
Appligent is first to redact PDF with the release of Redax plug-in for Adobe Acrobat.
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1998
Appligent is the first vendor to release server-based PDF applications: AppendPDF, StampPDF Batch and FDFMerge.
1999
Appligent was first to support the stamping of Bates Numbering for Legal PDF documents. Dynamic Bates Numbering was included in StampPDF Plug-in 1.2 and StampPDF Batch 1.1
2000
Revolutionary Form Flattening included in FDFMerge 3.0. Form Flattening removes the form field and stamps the data into the PDF document. It uses the form field as the location identifier then draws the field data into the PDF page content enabling the document to be viewed or printed by any application that can render PDF.
2002
Appligent is again first to market with its SecurSign application, capable of digitally signing PDF files using a technique compatible with the Adobe Digital Signature Mechanism.
2003
Redax Enterprise Server is the first server-based solution for redacting PDF documents.
2004

Appligent is first to support PDF form templates for mass generation of data intensive electronic forms.

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.

2006

Appligent is the first third party developer to port Acrobat plug-ins to the Nuance PDF Converter Professional environment.

2007

Appligent is the first to deliver a redaction product which supports "Redaction by Category"; allowing the user to repurpose the work document to produce redacted documents for multiple target audiences..

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2008

Appligent expands by adding professional services.

 

 

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