LuraTech is a software company, owned since 2015 by

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, with offices in

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, and in the United States, which makes products for handling and conversion of digital documents. Its customers are primarily organizations involved in long-term document archiving and scan service providers. It is a member of the

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. LuraTech was founded as a part of a joint project with the

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intended to bring

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techniques to digital still images. LuraTech developed a segmentation technology to deal with scanned documents containing

mixed raster content Mixed raster content (MRC) is a method for compressing images that contain both binary-compressible text and continuous-tone components, using image segmentation methods to improve the level of compression and the quality of the rendered image. By ...

(MRC), resulting in the creation of ''LuraDocument LDF'', a proprietary document format for the compression of scanned documents. Since then, LuraTech has developed several

software development kit A software development kit (SDK) is a collection of software development tools in one installable package. They facilitate the creation of applications by having a compiler, debugger and sometimes a software framework. They are normally specific to ...

s (SDKs) and computer applications for creating and handling PDF documents. LuraTech has also taken part in the development of the

JPEG 2000 JPEG 2000 (JP2) is an image compression standard and coding system. It was developed from 1997 to 2000 by a Joint Photographic Experts Group committee chaired by Touradj Ebrahimi (later the JPEG president), with the intention of superseding the ...

standard. In 2002 LuraTech created the ''PDF Compressor'', applying the concepts of MRC layered document compression to

PDF Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems. ...

standards, especially

PDF/A PDF/A is an ISO-standardized version of the Portable Document Format (PDF) specialized for use in the archiving and long-term preservation of electronic documents. PDF/A differs from PDF by prohibiting features unsuitable for long-term archiving, ...

. This was the first workflow solution that LuraTech built on top of its software development kits. In 2010 LuraTech launched ''DocYard'', a software platform to create and centrally manage general document and data conversion processes. At the 2013

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conference, LuraTech announced the release of its ''ZUGFeRD Extraction SDK'', a toolkit for ERP and online banking software developers, which facilitates processing of PDF invoices standardized under the ''Central User Guidelines for Electronic Billing in Germany'' (ZUGFeRD). In 2015 LuraTech released ''LuraTech PDF Scanner iOS'', a freely-available iPhone/iPad app for convenient creating and editing of highly compressed PDF documents. In October 2015 LuraTech was acquired by

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External links

Interview with the CEO of LuraTech in December 2004

LuraTech White Paper JPEG2000 - The Emerging Standard for the Millennium Overview : Next Generation Image Compression

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Software companies of Germany