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In 1993, Adobe introduced the Portable Document Format, commonly shortened to the initialism PDF, and its Adobe Acrobat and Reader software. Warnock originally developed the PDF under a code name, "The Camelot Project", using PostScript technology to create a widely available digital document format, able to display text, raster graphics ...
Khelif was born in Aïn Sidi Ali, Laghouat Province. [11] [12] When she was two months old, her family moved to Biban Mesbah, a rural village in Tiaret Province, where she would grow up.
Orca is a free and open-source, flexible, extensible screen reader from the GNOME project for individuals who are blind or visually impaired. Using various combinations of speech synthesis and braille, Orca helps provide access to applications and toolkits that support AT-SPI (e.g., the GNOME desktop, Mozilla Firefox / Thunderbird , OpenOffice ...
Software The free cross-platform OCR engine Tesseract is published by Hewlett Packard and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 2008 Application Adobe Acrobat starts including support for OCR on any PDF file. 2011 Application Word-frequency lookup Google Ngram Viewer is developed to chart frequencies of words on any source printed from 1950 to 2008.
In 2011 the Adobe Illustrator team developed a vector drawing app for iPad and iPhone, called Adobe Ideas. The app had many of the features of Adobe Illustrator, yet it was a free download. This allowed professionals to sketch and ideate "on the go" and allowed anyone to access world-class vector drawing capabilities.
Adobe ImageReady was a bitmap graphics editor that was shipped with Adobe Photoshop for six years. It was available for Windows , Classic Mac OS and Mac OS X from 1998 to 2007. ImageReady was designed for web development and closely interacted with Photoshop.
In 2012, Microsoft released a Microsoft Reader Metro-style app with Windows 8 for reading documents in PDF, XPS and TIFF formats. Reader was included in Windows 8.1 and was a free download from the Windows Store for Windows 10. Support for Windows 10 Mobile ended in 2016 in favor of opening PDF documents within Microsoft Edge browser. [6]
Foxit Software was founded in 2001 [7] by Eugene Y. Xiong (Chinese: 熊雨前), a Chinese national with permanent residence in the United States, [4] to develop similar PDF software products to those from Adobe Systems and other PDF vendors, and offer them at lower prices. [12]