Case Study: Volkswagen Foundation achieves automated PDF/A archiving with OCR using Pdftools

PDF/A conversion with OCR recognition for Volkswagen Foundation’s document management

The Volkswagen Foundation, a major private knowledge foundation in Germany, faced the challenge of standardizing and converting its vast archive of documents, images, and emails into the long-term PDF/A format with OCR text recognition. To automate this process, they turned to Pdftools and its 3-Heights products, including the PDF to PDF/A Converter.

Pdftools provided a solution that integrated into the foundation's environment, using services that monitored network folders to automatically process documents. The implementation dramatically improved the archiving system, processing over 1.2 million pages in the first year alone and ensuring the secure, standardized archiving of electronic documents according to an internationally recognized standard.

Volkswagen Foundation

Georg Brünig

Network Administrator