Case Study: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) achieves 85% faster processing and preserves PDF integrity with Foxit Software's PDF Optimization Suite for OpenText Captiva

NYSDEC Improves OCR Efficiency by 85% with PDF Compressor

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) needed to make complex electronic, image and hybrid PDFs fully searchable across its repository without losing critical PDF attributes. Generic OCR workflows forced documents to be rendered to images and re‑OCR’d, which stripped bookmarks, tables of contents, hyperlinks and metadata, undermining document integrity and discoverability.

NYSDEC implemented Foxit’s PDF Optimization Suite for OpenText Captiva to OCR files in its Documentum repository without rendering to images, preserving PDF/A, bookmarks, metadata and hyperlinks. The result: a fully text‑searchable, fully indexed archive, seamless integration into existing workflows, and a reduction in processing time to just 15% of the previous OCR process.

New York State Department of Environmental Conservaton (NYSDEC)