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Adobe PDF Digital Rights Management & Watermarking Solutions |
Today, Hurd I/T provides Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions using products from Adobe, ActivePDF, FileOpen Systems, and Microsoft to provide secure content delivery of Adobe PDF documents. Built around Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), our DRM solutions focus on the security of important electronic documents such as contracts, personnel records, training materials, financial statements, and more. Our DRM solutions allow our customers to fully integrate customized digital rights for each file. DRM allows the rights of the owner to be respected when distributing digital content, protecting the material from unauthorized use and piracy. In practice, DRM is a combination of technology and business models that enable the protection of digital files, giving you greater control over who has access to your sensitive material, how, when and where.
 What Is Digital Rights Management?
Digital rights management (DRM) is an umbrella term that refers to access control technologies used by publishers and copyright holders to limit usage of digital media or devices. It may also refer to restrictions associated with specific instances of digital works or devices. To some extent, DRM overlaps with copy protection, but DRM is usually applied to creative media (music, films, etc.) whereas copy protection typically refers to software.
 What are the benefits of DRM?
The use of digital rights management provides the ability for copyright holders to prevent unauthorized duplication of their work to ensure continued revenue streams. This allows the copyright owners to control the intended use of their PDF documents. Without DRM, PDF files can be easily copied and distributed, resulting in the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted and confidential materials. DRM allows the rights of the owner to be respected when distributing digital content. With DRM, you can designate the permissions for each PDF document and even per download of the document.
In the case of Adobe PDF documents, you can control most aspects of the documents including the following:
- Sharing and forwarding privileges
- Limiting or restricting Copy / Paste of a document
- Printing rights – limiting the number of pages or times a document can be printed.
- Recipient restrictions
- Read-only features
- Document expiration
Integrating DRM into PDF formatted documents gives businesses, institutions, government agencies, publishers, libraries, and ASPs greater control over their copyrighted materials.
Integration with existing e-Commerce sites and applications:
Our hosted DRM solutions are designed to work seamlessly with your existing Web infrastructure and business model. Whether you are conducting business-to-business transactions, sending files through an internal network, emailing information, or distributing eBooks through the retail channel or a library system, our hosted DRM solutions works with what you already have.
Solutions available from Hurd I/T:
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Hosted Adobe Content Server
Currently in our partnership with Adobe, we provide Adobe Content Server is available as a hosted service only. We offer the ability to upload your original encrypted PDF documents and you can provide the encrypted documents securely to your customers using Adobe's DRM eBook technology supported from Adobe Reader 5.0 to Adobe reader 7.0. We also can provide integration with e-commerce sites using the Adobe Content Server libraries. Our staff can assist you in developing a custom e-book solution for your web-site or e-commerce site. |
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Hosted FileOpen Web Publisher Server
FileOpen Web Publisher provides the ability to integrate the delivery of secured PDFs from your web-site or e-commerce application. In a similar manner as Adobe Content Server, FileOpen Web Publisher provides a higher degree of control over your secured PDF documents. You deliver documents which are either downloaded from the web-site or delivered on CDROM for a super-distribution option. Currently we have a large number of clients migrating to FileOpen Web Publisher for large scale DRM solutions using the dedicated server solution. Our development team has done a wide variety of deployments using the FileOpen Web Publisher server and can assist you in your development needs. |
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Hosted ActivePDF Server for digital watermarking solutions
For customers requiring Digital Watermarking of documents and dynamic document generation of content into Adobe PDF, our Hosted ActivePDF solution provides our customers the ability to generate watermarked documents without requiring a dedicated server. Uses typically are for copyright notices, corporate branding, and content tagging. Our development team can assist you in determining the best method for you. You can combine this technology with FileOpen Web Publisher t meet the up and coming ISO standards for Digital Watermarking and Digital Rights Management.
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Customer hosted dedicated solutions can be developed to integrate with existing applications and e-commerce portals for customers looking to deploy solutions within their data center facilities. Adobe Content Server is only offered as a hosted solution.
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