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Several new document viewing, control and analytics features have been added to Vuzit’s 100% AJAX online document viewer and DocuPub Platform this past year and we’d like for as many people as possible to try them.

Just visit the Pricing page on our website, select the account type that is right for you, and click the “Free Trial” link. No payment information is necessary. If you like what you see, become a paid subscriber or upgrade your account at any time during the trial. If Vuzit is not right for you, we will close your account after your trial ends.

Features you get with a Basic account:

• Upload documents into a secure account and manage in our web-based dashboard
• Embed a 100% AJAX document viewer into your web site or blog to share your documents
• Access to Vuzit’s developer tools, documentation and sample code

Choose this account for your own personal website or blog and if your document storage needs are less than 5 MB.

Features you get with a Starter account:

• All of the features above, plus…
• Keyword search in your documents
• Technical support from Vuzit engineers via email

Chose this account for your personal website, blog, or non-profit website when you need a bit more support from Vuzit and up to 500 MB of document storage.

Features you get with a Premium account:

• All of the features above, plus…
• SSL encryption for all your document uploads and downloads

Chose this account for your small business website or web application where secure document transmission is critical and when you need up to 1 GB of document storage.

Features you get with the Enterprise On-Demand account:

• All of the features above, plus…
• Brand our 100% AJAX document viewer for with your own logo
• Quickly upload or delete high document volumes with batch file processing
• Allow access to a few pages in a document with Document Previews
• Deter screenshots and track who prints PDFs with Digital Watermarks
• Track who reads your documents when and how with detailed Document Analytics

Examples of these features another can be found in our Demo Gallery.

Choose this account type if you are looking to sell documents online and want customers to see previews of available content, use documents as part of your company’s content marketing strategy and want to measure document effectiveness, or are a SaaS application provider that serves up documents or records to your customers online and need a lightweight embedded document viewer than can provision online document access rights and privileges.

If you have any questions, contact us at (215) 821-7004 or info@vuzit.com.

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Tags: AJAX document viewer, digital watermark, document analytics, document preview, DocuPub Platform, enterprise on-demand, keyword search, online document viewer

Capture valuable data on who reads your online documents with analytics from Vuzit

Do you know who is actually reading the documents you post online?

Do you need to control access to sensitive documents and reports? How do you know who is accessing those documents and when? Do you use white papers, case studies, data sheets and other content marketing materials to generate leads and provide customer service? If so, then you are losing valuable data on how those documents are being utilized by your intended audiences… until now.

Vuzit is excited to announce the availability of new document analytics functionally in its DocuPub Platform.

The ability to track detailed online document reading statistics has been difficult until the arrival of Vuzit’s new offering. Web analytics software vendors, such as Google Analytics, can only capture data on when a PDF file is downloaded from a website. Vuzit tracks 12 different document usage statistics, including document downloads, by individual document, page and user for 40 document types including:

1. Type of document request (i.e. new document or new page)
2. Name of requested document
3. Date document was read
4. Time of day document was read
5. Which pages of the document were navigated
6. How long was each page viewed
7. What zoom levels were used
8. Number of document downloads
9. IP address and geographic location of who requested the document
10. URL of the referring site or web page
11. What browser was used to view the document
12. Custom values (i.e. username)

IT departments can leverage this functionality to add security and auditing capabilities to sensitive documents and reports. Content marketers and e-publishers can use document analytics to generate leads, better understand document effectiveness and track document popularity.

The detailed analytics can be accessed via the Analytics tab on the web dashboard in a DocuPub Platform account. The full range of analytics reporting, including the ability to export statistics, is included in the Enterprise On-Demand account. Starter and Premium accounts offer limited analytics data. Get a free, no-obligation trial of the analytics feature for 60 days with an Enterprise On-Demand account.

More information about Vuzit’s document analytics can be found in the following places:

Document Analytics Developer Page

DocuPub Platform Analytics product page

Vuzit Document Viewer Demo Gallery

Since this is new functionality, Vuzit welcomes any feedback and suggestions regarding how we can improve the document analytics functionality we are providing. Remember to sign up for your free, no-obligation trial of the DocuPub Platform today and try this powerful new functionality for yourself.

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Tags: content marketing, dashboard, document analytics, documents, DocuPub Platform, e-publisher, enterprise on-demand, Google Analytics, online document viewer, PDF, web analytics

Salesforce.com cites Vuzit as case for mainstream cloud computing

In a November 6, 2009 blog post Vuzit cited an article that we appeared in on Internet Evolution about how we run our business in the cloud. Not only does Vuzit sell SaaS-based software, but we use several SaaS-based business applications internally.

Apparently the folks at Salesforce.com found our quote pretty interesting because they used it in a presentation given at Dreamforce 2009 called “Dreamforce 2009 Platform State of the Union.”

In the presentation Salesforce.com makes the case that cloud computing is no longer on the “bleeding edge” and that mainstream businesses are adopting it. The slide deck also includes several additional interesting statistics on cloud computing adoption including a Gartner estimate that the cloud services market will reach over $150 billion by 2013 and that 37% of firms are replacing current on-premise systems with SaaS.

Vuzit is naturally an advocate of cloud-based computing, as it is the primary way we offer our online document viewer and DocuPub Platform. Using SaaS business applications also helps us run our business more efficiently and enables us to focus more resources on our product and our customers.

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Tags: cloud computing, cloud services, DocuPub Platform, dreamforce, online document viewer, SaaS, salesforce.com

Vuzit Document Keyword Search Speed Enhanced

In a previous post we mentioned that for some customers it will take approximately one hour for documents to be searchable by keyword once uploaded to your Vuzit DocuPub Platform account.  We have recently updated this functionality so documents are now searchable almost immediately after they are uploaded.  Give Vuzit’s keyword search a try and see for yourself!  Upload a document, click on the binocular icon in our online document viewer and enter your keyword search term. If you have any questions, then please don’t hesitate to contact us.

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Tags: basic, enterprise on-demand, keyword search, premium, service update, starter

Vuzit announces Digital Watermarks in DocuPub Platform

We are thrilled to announce that digital watermarks are a new feature in the Vuzit DocuPub Platform.  We are very excited by the added security benefits this new feature provides to websites and web applications, particularly virtual data room (VDR) applications where controlling document editing privileges and document versioning audits are paramount to the success of an investment, merger or acquisition. Stay tuned for more information about Vuzit’s integration with VDR applications coming soon.

Are you concerned about your digital content getting stolen?

Most businesses that produce content have this concern.  Vuzit can now place identifiable information within the Vuzit online document viewer, and also on  downloaded PDF files.  This way if there is a security breach, you can identify the person or party that was originally served the document.

You can see a live demo of Vuzit’s Ajax document viewer with a digital watermark in our developer community documentation.  You can also directly inspect a watermarked PDF file that we created using our watermarking web service.

The digital watermarks developer documentation explains how to get started implementing digital watermarking into your application.  Developers can access the watermarking features with a simple Javascript API parameter, or using the Web Service API to download a watermarked document directly.  This feature is available to all Enterprise On-Demand accounts.

We are excited to see how developers start using this new feature!  As always, please contact us directly with any questions, or leave us feedback in our support forum.

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Tags: digital watermarks, document watermarks, DocuPub Platform, enterprise on-demand, security, viewer

Document Keyword Search Feature Update

Due to its popularity, Vuzit’s keyword search feature is now only available to our Starter, Premium, and Enterprise On-Demand accounts. We have restored keyword search functionality for all PDF documents in each of these account types and keyword search will work for all MS Office documents submitted to Vuzit as of Wednesday, November 18, 2009. This does not affect any of our customers on dedicated infrastructure.

At this time it takes approximately 1 hour for the search index to update and for documents to then be searchable. Vuzit will follow up separately with specific customers who may be affected by intermittent keyword search availability. Vuzit continues to work on improving the performance of this important and valuable feature.

If you are a Starter, Premium, or Enterprise On-Demand account holder and have further questions about keyword search functionality, please contact Vuzit via the technical support email address found in your account on the Dashboard page.

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Tags: basic, enterprise on-demand, keyword search, premium, service update, starter

Vuzit Security Model, Architecture, Demo Gallery and More at Vuzit.com

The Vuzit website contains new details about the Vuzit DocuPub Platform and shows examples of our 100% AJAX Document Viewer in action. The DocuPub Platform’s security model integrated with Amazon Web Services and its system architecture can be found in the new Products section and examples of the Vuzit Document Viewer are located in the new Demo Gallery.

Vuzit can be used for more than an online PDF viewer. There are a number of business processes and departments that can benefit from web-based document viewing and document control. For example, finance departments can reduce days to pay by sending invoices, statements and bills via a private URL for easy online document viewing and document tracking.

Human resource departments can receive resumes and cover letters in 40 different file types but review, share and track these documents in a single online document viewer for faster review and processing.

Sales professionals can protect proposals and price quotations by sending these documents via a private URL which can be tracked and revoked after the deadline for approving the proposal or price quote has expired.

Selling e-books and other documents online? Safely allow prospective buyers to preview documents for sale and then chose whether to allow them to download or only view the document online after purchase.

These are just a few examples. More are listed in the Solutions section.

Last, but not least, we’ve made it easier to try the Enterprise On-Demand edition of the Vuzit DocuPub Platform with a risk free, money back guaranteed 30 day trial. Now you can try all the feature available in the Vuzit DocuPub Platform free for 30 days. For an updated list of what you get with each account type and to sign up, visit the Pricing page.

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Tags: AJAX document viewer, Amazon Web Services, document tracking, DocuPub Platform, online document viewer, PDF Viewer

Document Preview Feature Added to Vuzit DocuPub Platform

Selling ebooks or documents in your online marketplace and want to provide prospective buyers with a sample of the document for sale? Then check out the Document Preview API in the Vuzit DocuPub Platform.

The Document Preview API allows a few pages of a document to be previewed in the Vuzit Document Viewer before allowing access to every page of the document. Upon purchasing the document or authenticating to your website per your specifications, the complete version of the document can then be accessed within the Vuzit Document Viewer or as a downloadable version of the document.

The Document Viewer API is part of the Javascript API and is available to customers with an Enterprise On-Demand account.

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Tags: Document Preview API, Document Previews, ebook, Vuzit Document Viewer

Vuzit Runs Its Business with SaaS Applications in the Cloud

As cited in a recent article on the Internet Evolution website, And Before You Know It… Clouds Are Status Quo, Vuzit practices what it preaches when it comes to conducting business in the cloud. How could we expect customers to store important and sensitive documents with us, if we did not ourselves trust the cloud computing infrastructure with our own sensitive information?

Vuzit has been using several SaaS applications where information is stored in the cloud for years, including Salesforce.com for CRM, Quickbooks Online for finances, Fogbugz for issue tracking, Basecamp for project management, Yammer for communication and more. This is in addition to building, deploying and storing our software and data with  Amazon Web Services.

With each of these applications we have experienced excellent reliability, security and availability. As good, if not better, than our experiences with internal IT departments at the large organizations from where we came before forming Vuzit.

Those that commented on the article beg to differ about the importance and/or security of cloud computing. This has not been Vuzit’s experience. What about yours?

Check out the full article at http://bit.ly/2BdiCK.

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Tags: amazon, Amazon Web Services, cloud computing, SaaS, Vuzit

Java library for the Vuzit Document Web Services API Released

Vuzit just released a developer code library for the Java programming language called VuzitJava. The VuzitJava library allows developers to directly access the Vuzit Web Service API to automate the upload, download and removal of documents within the Vuzit DocuPub Platform. You can use this library through any Java enabled language such as Scala, Jython and Groovy.

As with our other code libraries it’s just a couple lines of code to perform any action. Here’s an example:

com.vuzit.Service.setPublicKey("PUBLIC_KEY");  
com.vuzit.Service.setPrivateKey("PRIVATE_KEY"); 

String path = "c:/path/to/document.pdf";
com.vuzit.Document doc = com.vuzit.Document.upload(path);

System.out.println("Document id: " + doc.getId());

Getting Started

To get up and running you download VuzitJava and add the JAR to your project. You can see detailed instructions on the official VuzitJava wiki.

Below are some other helpful links for getting started:

• Download
• Introduction and setup
• Code examples
• API Reference

Do you have VuzitJava in my Programming Language?

Right now we support the following programming languages:

• Javascript – (tutorial)
• Microsoft .NET Framework and Mono
• PHP
• Ruby
• Command-line (for any programming language)

If you’re interested in a library for your programming language then let us know. If you want to try to write your own then also let us know and we’ll do everything we can to help you build it. The language on our short list is Python.

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Tags: java, open source, web service api

The New AWS Solution Providers Program — Membership has its Privileges

Today Vuzit received the “official  logo” to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solutions Provider Program as a new member. While Vuzit is certainly happy to be included in what is still a relatively short list of accepted independent software vendors (ISVs), what is more encouraging is that AWS has launched such a program and is creating a community of ISVs and solution providers that integrate with, run on, or otherwise support cloud computing with Amazon Web Services.

Cloud computing and providers such as AWS make Vuzit and so many other businesses possible today. The Vuzit DocuPub Platform is a multi-tenant SaaS system optimized for the AWS cloud computing infrastructure. It allows our customers to scale up document storage and document processing bandwidth within minutes to meet demand without disrupting real-time production. Vuzit uses AWS EC2 for document processing and AWS S3 for secure document storage. In addition to offering document processing and storage in a shared cloud computing environment, Vuzit offers dedicated AWS instances to certain enterprise customers with unique security and/or bandwidth needs. We could not provide this level of flexibility, reliability, scalability and security to our customers as such an affordable price without AWS. To learn more about AWS security processes, check out their whitepaper, “Amazon Web Services Overview of Security Processes.”

Having AWS offer additional co-marketing, education, community networking and support as part of a Solution Providers Program, and a growing list of companies becoming members, continues to validate cloud computing as a viable elastic IT infrastructure.

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Document Keyword Search

We are currently experiencing problems with our document search and search web service. This affects all Basic, Starter, Premium, and Enterprise On-Demand accounts (except our Dedicated Enterprise On-Demand accounts). When attempting to perform a search, the end-user will receive a message that says the search is not available.

We just more than doubled our server hardware to deal with this problem, and are still in the process of migrating our databases. We will send out an update as soon as the problem is resolved. We appreciate your patience. -Chris (CTO)

Update 1: Search is currently back up and running. We are still batch processing the documents that have been submitted since we had the issue.

Update 2: Search has been brought down again. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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Tags: basic, enterprise on-demand, keyword search, premium, service update, starter

Preview PDFs Online with PDF Download and Vuzit

Today, NitroPDF, provider of the first true alternative to Adobe® Acrobat®, and Vuzit announced the integration of the Vuzit DocuPub Platform with NitroPDF’s PDF Download browser extension. The latest version of PDF Download, version 3, is available from the Firefox Addons website and includes a new “view online” feature.

This allows PDF Download users to click on a PDF document and choose to quickly read it online in their browser while maintaining all the original document formatting. You can then chose to download the PDF to save or print it.

Vuzit is very excited about this partnership with NitroPDF because it showcases the multi-tenant SaaS architecture of the DocuPub Platform. In beta testing document conversions only took a few seconds for thousands of documents a day. In addition, NitroPDF is very innovative in helping customers view documents online in response to marketplace demands. Read the full press release at http://bit.ly/4gRTe9.

PDF Download is available at: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/636.

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Tags: Adobe, DocuPub Platform, extensions, firefox, NitroPDF, PDF, SaaS

Vuzit Gives Back to the Local Community

The Vuzit management team strives to foster entrepreneurship in Philadelphia and give back to the community which has supported the company and helped it to grow. To that end, Vuzit executives recently participated in two local Philadelphia events.

Vuzit CEO and founder, Brent Matzelle visited 32 students in Temple University’s “Introduction to Information Science and Technology” class on Friday October 2^nd. This class is the first that Information Science & Technology majors take and Professor Wendy Urban likes to bring in several speakers during the semester so that her students can learn about job opportunities and other areas of the major that they might like to explore.

Brent shared with the class his experience after college working in the IT industry with a computer science degree as well as his motivations, challenges and successes while starting his own company. After Brent’s talk, the students wrote blog posts about their impressions. Many were intrigued by the idea of starting a business and wrote that they planned to pursue business and/or entrepreneurship classes as part of their studies. Other students commented that after hearing Brent’s speech they felt empowered about their future career options and how by studying information technology they can a make an impact in the business world.

On October 5, Vuzit’s CTO, Chris Cera, participated on panel called, “How to Start a Startup Community” at Innovation Philadelphia’s Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit. Chris is on the board of Philly Startup Leaders (PSL), an organization of entrepreneurs dedicated to helping other entrepreneurs realize their dreams by providing networking, support and other resources. The panel shared with conference attendees how PSL got off the ground as well as insights on how several other grassroots organizations got their start.

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Tags: enterpreneurship, Innovation Philadelphia, Philadelphia, philly, Philly Startup Leaders, Temple University

Online Document Viewing Available in the Cloud or in Your IT Infrastructure

Vuzit recognizes that customers are looking to improve access to important documents online, from catalogs to contracts, and leverage both cloud computing and internal IT infrastructures. This is why Vuzit released version 2.5 of the DocuPub Platform On-Premise edition. The On-Premise edition is for companies seeking to embed secure document viewing and control functionality into websites or applications, including web, mobile and desktop, with the IT infrastructure to process and store its documents in-house. The new release contains several new features and technical enhancements resulting in faster and easier application integration.

New features include:

• Print PDF– Convert non-PDF document types to PDF files for downloading and printing
• Image File Format Support– PNG, JPG, GIF, TIFF, BMP
• Web Services APIs– Upload, delete, and retrieve document information for application integration via PHP and Ruby client libraries
• Vuzit.Net Library for Microsoft .NET– Upload and manage documents directly from any .NET application; language support includes C#, Visual Basic.NET (VB.NET), JavaScript (JScript.NET), LUA, Pascal and Python
• Enhanced Dashboard User Interface– Manage documents and debug applications faster and more easily
• MySQL Database Support–The world’s most popular open source database

Increasingly online document viewing is being integrated into digital marketplaces, social networking sites and enterprise web applications such as CRM, personal finance and document management to improve access to documents online while also maintaining control over them.

The Vuzit DocuPub Platform On-Premise Edition version 2.5 is currently available and represents Vuzit’s continued commitment to bringing enterprise-quality document viewing products to market while reducing development and maintenance costs. Inquiries should be directed to info@vuzit.com or 215-966-6010.

Read the full press release at: http://bit.ly/jpLhA

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Tags: .net, AJAX, MySQL Database, online document viewer, PDF

3 Websites To View Your PDFs Online Review

Today Vuzit’s 100% AJAX document viewer was reviewed by MakeUseOf, “a daily blog that features cool websites, computer tips, and downloads that make you more productive,” in a post entitled, “3 Websites To View Your PDFs Online” The reviewer talks about our Vuzit Share page where you can post and share a PDF, or any of 40 other document formats, on the web for free in our online document viewer without needing a separate reader application or browser plug-in. In addition to the Vuzit Share page, where your documents are posted to our website, Vuzit also offers free and paid subscriptions where you can post and share documents to specified readers.

Vuzit welcomes your reviews and comments about its product. You can add your feedback here in our blog or on the MakeUseOf website.

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Tags: AJAX, documents, online document viewer, PDF, Vuzit Share

Vuzit Recognized for Company Growth in Philly Media

Vuzit has been growing steadily for the past year adding more enterprise customers, more product features and more employees…. all this in spite of what folks keep saying is a terrible economic climate. But this environment is helping to shape Vuzit into a more focused and efficient company, one keenly aware of the needs of our prospects and customers and striving to meet those needs at every turn. We do this without much fanfare so it’s nice when our hard work is occasionally recognized by our local community.

Today, Vuzit was featured in “Shop Talk” on Technically Philly, a site dedicated to covering technology trends and news in the Philadelphia region, for our company growth and new document viewing product features. http://bit.ly/11fQCD

Thanks guys.

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Tags: customers, enterprise, growth, philly

Keyword Search, Print PDF, and Private Document Sharing Features Added to Vuzit DocuPub Platform v3.0

Vuzit is excited to announce the version 3.0 release of its flagship Vuzit DocuPub Platform software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering for online document viewing and control. In addition to enhancing the Vuzit Dashboard to make uploading, embedding and sharing documents easier than ever before, we have also added the following features:

• Keyword Search– Click on the new binocular icon and enter your search term. Results are highlighted on all text-based documents.

• Print PDF– Reading a document you want to download, but don’t have the native application installed? No worries, just click the “Print PDF” button and the document is automatically converted to a PDF file for saving and printing.

• Private Document Sharing– Select “Create Secure Link” to generate a web link you can use to share documents privately via email.

• Document ID– Each document is given a unique Vuzit Document ID. Use this Document ID to share documents privately in a web application.
• Document Statistics– Track document upload dates, file sizes and number of views for each document in the Dashboard.
• Increased Document Control– Documents are kept private in the Vuzit Dashboard until you are ready to share them.
• Vuzit.Net Library for Microsoft.NET– Upload and manage documents directly from any .NET application. Language support includes C#, VB.NET, JScript.NET, LUA, Pascal and Python.

These features are 100% AJAX, supported by all operating systems and browsers, even smartphones like the iPhone and Blackberry.

The Vuzit DocuPub Platform version 3.0 is automatically available to all current Vuzit DocuPub Platform SaaS subscribers. New subscribers may access the software by signing up for an account on the Vuzit website at http://vuzit.com/signup. We offer free Basic account to individuals as well as three levels of paid subscriptions for businesses and organizations, which offer additional storage, features and support. Each subscription level includes a risk-free 30 day trial.

SaaS application providers, web designers and developers are invited to learn more about the Vuzit product line at http://vuzit.com.

See the press release at: http://www.pr.com/press-release/170935

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Tags: AJAX, dashboard, DocuPub Platform, embed, embedded document viewer, Microsoft .NET, online document viewer, PDF, Private document, SaaS, security, smartphone

Microsoft .NET and Mono library for the Vuzit Document Web Services API Released

Vuzit just released a developer code library for the Microsoft .NET Framework and Mono called Vuzit.Net. The Vuzit.Net library allows developers to directly access the Vuzit Web Service API to automate the upload, download and removal of documents within the Vuzit DocuPub Platform. You can use this library through any .NET enabled language such as C#, Visual Basic.NET (VB.NET), JavaScript (JScript.NET), LUA, Pascal or Python to name a few.

As with our other code libraries it’s just a couple lines of code to perform any action. Here’s an example:

Vuzit.Service.PublicKey = "YOUR_PUBLIC_API_KEY";
Vuzit.Service.PrivateKey = "YOUR_PRIVATE_API_KEY";

string path = @"c:\path\to\document.pdf";
Vuzit.Document doc = Vuzit.Document.Upload(path);
Console.WriteLine("Document id: {0}", doc.Id);

Getting Started

To get up and running you download Vuzit.Net and add the DLL to your project.  You can see detailed instructions on the official Vuzit.Net wiki.

Below are some other helpful links for getting started:

• Download
• Introduction and setup
• Code examples
• API Reference

Do you have Vuzit.Net in my Programming Language?

Right now we support the following programming languages:

• Javascript – (tutorial)
• PHP
• Ruby
• Command-line (for any programming language)

If you’re interested in a library for your programming language then let us know. If you want to try to write your own then also let us know and we’ll do everything we can to help you build it. The languages on our short list are Java and Python.

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Tags: .net, open source, web service api

PDFs and Online Document Viewers Standardize Document Sharing

A recent blog post by our friends at NitroPDF posited several reasons why the Portable Document Format (aka PDF) file is such popular way to share files in the workplace, and increasingly everywhere else as well. The reasons cited are spot on… “1. Portability. 2. Reliability. 3. Accuracy. 4. Openness. 5. Familiarity.” It’s just so darn easy to use is a likely sixth reason.

The PDF was conceived to solve the problem of viewing printed information electronically and it has been very successful in doing so. Along the way, people also thought that a PDF document also protected the content in the document. For a long time that was true. Regular folks did not have access to the sophisticated software necessary to edit PDF files.

However, times have changed and software is readily available that will convert our PDF files into an editable formats within seconds. So, while the PDF still fulfills is mission to standardize document sharing, it does not fully solve the problem of document control. Once you email someone a PDF file, or post it on your website for download, you have lost control over what happens to that document… who it gets sent to, whether or not the content is edited, or is otherwise used in ways you did not originally intend.

A new crop of software solutions have emerged to provide increased control over documents shared online while still addressing the need for universal viewing.  These solutions range from complex and costly enterprise digital or information rights management applications to free online document viewers. Vuzit provides its own solution with the Vuzit DocuPub Platform.

The Vuzit DocuPub Platform is a robust, standards-based set of APIs, Web Services and libraries that enables you to embed 40 different types of files and images into your website or application. The Vuzit DocuPub Platform contains dozens of features to help control how documents and content are accessed in its online document viewer such as downloading, zoom levels, navigation and more.

The Vuzit DocuPub Platform and document viewer are intended for use by software companies, web development consultancies and developers who are seeking an enterprise-quality option for sharing documents online that is both easy to use and affordable. The Developer community on the Vuzit website contains reference documentation, sample code, API tutorials, feedback forums and more. Free and paid subscriptions to the Vuzit DocuPub Platform are also available.

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Tags: document control, documents, online document viewer