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SecurSign 5 Now Available! Includes Signature Validation to Detect Tampering.
Lansdowne, PA (July 13, 2011)
Encrypt, digitally sign and verify digital signatures on PDF documents.

Redax 5: Advanced Redaction for PDF Documents
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
The latest Redax adds new patterns, regular expressions and more!

Redax Enterprise Server 3 Ships!
Thursday, January 6, 2011
New Redaction Engine, Powerful New Markup Options and More!

Survey: Server Based PDF Applications
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
The 2010 Survey asked about PDF server application development.

5 PDF Readers Compared
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Expanding on our previous review, we've included Nitro's Reader and Adobe's new Reader X.

PDF Form Aids Sales Team Collaboration
Friday, November 26, 2010
Take a document, add a dash of JavaScript, a sprinkling of PDF know-how, and serve.

Company History

YearAppligent Document Solutions
2010 Appligent Document Solutions completes transitioning its applications to the Adobe PDF Library.
2009

Appligent Document Solutions releases pdfharmony to harmonize large collectons of PDF documents.

Appligent Document Solutions adopts Adobe's PDF Library.  Learn why.

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   DSI is first to market with Section 508 compliance services for PDF.
2000
Appligent 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 plugin 1.2 and StampPDF Batch 1.1. DSI introduces "Brochure Grade" document imaging standards.
1998
Appligent 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 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 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   Document Solutions, Inc. (DSI) is founded as the world's first dedicated PDF services company.
1994
Appligent 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.