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Vuzit Updates its Developer Community Portal for New and Returning Visitors

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Vuzit has revised the Developer Community pages on our website to make it easier for frequent visitors to find and use our APIs, and for new visitors to better evaluate the Vuzit DocuPub Platform. One major addition to the developer section is a Vuzit integration tutorial video.  In this video, we ...

Vuzit Document Keyword Search Speed Enhanced

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

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 ...

Vuzit announces Digital Watermarks in DocuPub Platform

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

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 ...

Document Keyword Search Feature Update

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

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 ...

Document Preview Feature Added to Vuzit DocuPub Platform

Monday, November 9th, 2009

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 ...

Java library for the Vuzit Document Web Services API Released

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

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 ...

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

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

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 ...

Vuzit Web Services Command Line Tool – VuzitCL

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Here at Vuzit we're dedicated to providing the best possible experience for developers. That's why we spend so much time on support and developer tools. Well today we are announcing VuzitCL, yet another tool to make your life easier. VuzitCL is a command line interface to the ...

Ruby Online Document Viewer API Released

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

  At Vuzit we write much of our code in Ruby so this release is very exciting for us. So let me introduce you to VuzitRuby, the Vuzit Web Services library for Ruby. With this tool any developer (and hopefully non-developers) will be able to automate the upload, load ...

Reverse Engineering the 100% AJAX Vuzit Document Viewer

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Most people think about documents as individual files, and this is where our viewpoint contrasts with the norm.  We believe that working with files should be merely an option, and a less desirable one for certain applications. At Vuzit we try to eat our own dog food with every subsystem we ...

Calling all PHP Developers – VuzitPHP web services library

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

On the coat tails of our web services API release we released VuzitPHP. This tool makes it such that PHP programmers can automatically upload, load, and delete documents using the Vuzit Platform. Below is an example of how to upload a document: [sourcecode language="php"] include_once "VuzitPHP/lib/vuzit.php"; Vuzit_Service::$PublicKey = 'YOUR_PUBLIC_API_KEY'; Vuzit_Service::$PrivateKey = 'YOUR_PRIVATE_API_KEY'; $doc ...

Vuzit Product Line and API Updates

Monday, March 9th, 2009

We have made a number of significant updates this weekend which includes new product line updates, and improvements to our Developer APIs. Premium+ Product Launched We have released our new Premium+ offering which is a complete solution for integrating Vuzit into your product or service.  This is a completely customizable version of ...

Audio of Panel with CTO Chris Cera at Fall Forecast 2008 Conference

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Chris recently participated in a fantastic panel discussion entitled "Real World Cloud Computing Experiences" with Toby DiPasquale, Andrew Kortina, and Chris Richardson at the Fall Forecast 2008: Computing From The Clouds conference. Ken Rimple from Chariot Solutions moderated the panel, produced the audio, and wrote the following summary of the panel: Today's ...

Google Chrome and Javascript API Updates

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Google Chrome is not only a dip into the browser market for Google, but also the Rich Internet Application space as a whole. We were thrilled to discover that Google Chrome worked flawlessly with Vuzit on the day it launched. We learned about Google Chrome at the ...

CTO Chris Cera speaking at upcoming Fall Forecast 2008 Conference

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Our CTO, Chris Cera, will be participating in a panel discussion called "Real World Cloud Computing Experiences" next month at the upcoming Fall Forecast 2008 Conference. This is a full one-day conference being held outside of Philadelphia at the Penn State Great Valley campus. If you will be ...

Paypal Website Payments Pro (US) with Recurring Billing and ActiveMerchant

Friday, August 1st, 2008

When we decided to use Paypal Website Payments Pro (US), we were slightly bummed that ActiveMerchant didn't support recurring billing. We almost jumped to a different payment processor, but finally decided to roll up our sleeves and write the code ourselves. In the spirit of giving back to the open ...

Major User Experience Improvements and Opera Support

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

It has been awhile since we sent out an update on our company and technology. Since getting accepted into the DreamIT Ventures program we have acquired new office space and two full-time employees. Greg Bright, one of the original founders, joins us full-time as the VP of Engineering ...

Major Imaging Update

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

We recently pushed out an update that improves the imaging back-end. Here are some notes about the update: Improved the image quality (drastically in many cases), so your documents will look better than ever. Reduced the image size by 50%, so your documents will load significantly faster. Processing time for initial ...

Vuzit MediaWiki Extension

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Evan Sultanik has written a simple extension for MediaWiki that allows you to display documents inside your MediaWiki instance! MediaWiki is the open source software behind the Wikipedia online encyclopedia which claims 5% of all internet traffic. We are grateful for the time Evan spent developing and documenting ...

Linkit easily converts your document links to use Vuzit

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Switch your document links to the Vuzit online document viewer instead of the bloated alternatives, and your users will thank you. By including a small snippet of Javascript you can breathe new life into your document links. By default, a small icon will be displayed to the right of the ...