A good read: PDF Association clears the air​

For many businesses, the PDF/A format provides the ideal basis for long-term archiving that is as uncomplicated as it is secure. Originally designated PDF/A-1, this standardized version of the conventional PDF format was established as the international standard ISO 19005-1 in late 2005 and has been available as an ISO standard in its extended versions PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-3 since July 2011 and October 2012 respectively. The big advantage of this format is that it guarantees reliable reproduction over time regardless of the application or system that was used to create the file.

webPDF easily converts PDF documents into graphics files just the way you want them.​

PDF documents must be converted into graphics files if you want to establish a TIFF archive system or in cases when document archiving programs only accept a particular image file format, such as JPEG or PNG. The PDF file format is ideally suited for enabling businesses to cope with and manage what is a daily deluge of documents, while ensuring that all users can readily access them. What's more, the PDF/A format is the perfect basis for the long-term archiving of electronic documents.

Let OCR integrate faxes into your workflow​

OCR stands for optical character recognition and is a technology that allows PDF documents to be converted into text documents that can be searched and edited. Even in the digital age, faxes have not lost all their importance and are still used widely in a number of areas. The problem: Once scanned, these documents are available as either graphics files or as PDFs that contain only reproduced images and no text content, which means they cannot be integrated into your workflows. The solution is to use OCR to convert these graphics documents into editable PDF documents which allow them to be searched for specific terms and thus capable of being integrated into your company's workflows. webPDF provides the means of creating PDF documents from digitally recorded faxes that not only contain the fax image, but the text content as well.