callas software PDF technology for developers

Developercallas software has been developing software for the analysis and processing of PDFs for more than 10 years. As of 2000 callas software started offering their PDF technology to OEM partners. As of today, numerous vendors all over the world rely upon PDF technology from callas software for processing and optimizing millions of PDF documents for printing, online delivery, document management and archiving.


All server products offered by callas software are available also as programming libraries in the form of SDKs (Software Develoment Kit) and as Command Line tools. This allows developers, integrators and OEMs to flexibly incorporate functionality from callas software's products seamlessly into their own solutions and products. For an overview of available technologies please click here ...

How can you use PDF technology by callas?

Workflow solutions

Various workflow solutions are targeting different industries for flexible and comprehensive processing of communication tasks, quality assurance and production steps. Where PDF files have to be tested and/or corrected respective modules have to provide the thorough and reliable processing. callas software's command line solutions or libraries can provide the technology to complete your solution.

Software as a service

The submission of PDF files to print production or to regulatory authorities require that the files comply to defined quality standards. When such files are transmitted over the web an automatic quality assurance with feedback to the submitter are necessary to avoid issues later in the workflow. You can include callas softwares technology in your web application or submission platform. If you provide such functions as a separate chargeable service or as integrated with other solutions callas can help you.

Commercial products

You have or plan a commercial product which needs to support PDF files. May this be to ensure the compliance to a PDF-based ISO Standard or process PDFs to make them fit for specific usages. The requirements are ranging as wide as the kinds of applications where PDFs are used. To be sure that you can do precisely what's needed with PDFs – not less but also not more - callas' SDKs can be integrated and flexibly used.

How do you get in touch with callas software for help?

Feel free to contact callas software any time to discuss your needs and how callas software's PDF technology can help you address your PDF needs. callas software offers flexible licensing terms – we are only successful if you are successful. Call us today at +49 30 44 39 03 10 or contact us by form.

How our partners take advantage of callas software's PDF technology

Adobe: Acrobat without Preflight would be like a car without steering wheel

wobeteam: Speedy newspaper workflow

KIM PDF: Native PDF imposition

QuarkXPress: Guaranteed standards compliant PDF/X

Xerox: FreeFlow takes the guess work out of processing PDFs

Helios: PDF Handshake processes thousands of PDFs quickly and reliably

detec: Insurance for standards compliant archiving included

MGE: Jorg RIPs offer comprehensive PDF processing options

PrintOnline: Swiss ads never get through without thorough prefighting

NADA: Norwegian newspapers don't accept bad PDFs anymore

EyeC: Proofs so you can see, checks what you can't see

Groupware: Guaranteed PDF/A generation with e:PDF

ProcSet: Comprehensive control and correction for PDFs

Xicrypt: Digitally signing PDFs with that extra portion of guaranteed archivability