VirtualViewer® — Document Manipulation and Modification

The document lifecycle represents the comprehensive process a document goes through from beginning to end – from creation and distribution, to storage and ongoing document manipulation and modification. Document manipulation and modification tools and processes play an important role in how we revise and reuse our documents, especially with today’s ever-increasing information compliance regulations.

For example, many companies employ universal document viewing applications as part of their electronic content management (ECM) or business process management (BPM) systems. Viewing applications enable users to securely open and view virtually any type of document, no matter what application it was created in, a boon to workflow, colleague collaboration and productivity. One should choose their tools to meet these challenges wisely to keep both the processes, and the information itself, flowing smoothly and securely.

Document viewing applications may also be used for page and document manipulation, enabling quick and easy on-the-fly modifications. Documents may be revised – creating new documents – while preserving unaltered originals, very important for files that have already gone through legal review and cannot be altered without being reviewed again. And the newly created documents may be added to the document repository via the viewing application interface as well.