Case study – Workshare
Business Area: Document Comparison.
Company overview
Workshare is dedicated to helping professionals compare, protect and share their high stakes documents. First established in 1999 with the advent of the groundbreaking DeltaView technology for file comparison, Workshare continues its heritage of developing and releasing intelligent technology.
Focused on the comparison and protection of high stakes documents, Workshare continues to launch innovative solutions, including Workshare Transact, for secure online transaction management, supporting deal closing processes.
Headquartered in London, Workshare operates offices in the UK, US and Australia. More than two million professionals in 70 countries now use Workshare on their desktop or mobile device.
Workshare Compare
At the root and core of our business is Workshare Compare, our comparison solution. Built on the original foundations of DeltaView and evolved over 16 years of working with business services professionals, Workshare Compare offers the fastest, most accurate way to compare two documents.
It is deployed as either a traditional Windows application on the desktop, or as a cloud-delivered app that can run inside browsers, mobile devices, PCs, or can be embedded in other document creation, sharing and management platforms.
What Solid Framework provides us
Solid Framework provides Workshare with the ability to convert PDF files to Word documents quickly and with a high degree of accuracy, which is essential to our solution. This gives our customers a great experience when it comes to comparing PDFs with other PDFs or with Word documents.
The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities from Solid Documents, leverage this ability by supporting comparisons of scanned PDF files.
Why we opted to use Solid Framework
We’ve been partners with Solid Documents for many years and have always found them to be great to work with. Their PDF to Word conversion capabilities are second to none. It was an easy choice.
How has this benefited us?
Solid Framework allows Workshare to compare PDFs with the highest levels of accuracy.
When we do encounter issues, the Solid Documents team are quick to respond and help find solutions. This lets us get on with what we want to do, rather than having to grapple with the technology.