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About the Book
Does this story sound familiar?
You have send out some contracts in PDF to yourclients, and would like to be able to track real time who has already singed the document, and with whom it is now.
You've paid a digital invoice of your supplier, and afterwards it seemed to be fake - you were a victim of invoicing fraude.
These issues and many more can now be solved by Blockchain.
What blockchain and PDF have in common?
Blockchain has become well-known because of its use with Bitcoin, but there are several lesser known applications of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT).
This eBook focuses on how you can use Blockchain in combination with PDFs to write applications.
This eBook will explain you everything tou need to get started with blockchain for documents:
- How to reduce the complexity of your code when needing digital signing and verification functionality,
- How to assure the integrity and authenticity of a document, and
- How to automate your document-oriented workflows.
Table of contents
- Why iText and Blockchain?
- Basic Concepts (Glossary)
- PDF and Digital Signatures
- Advantages of using Blockchain for Signing PDF Documents
- When Contracts aren't Smart Contracts
- Use Cases
About the Author
iText is one of the fastest growing technology companies in the digital document space. The company’s flagship product is an open source software library to create and manipulate PDF documents in Java and .NET (C#). There are currently millions of iText users, both open source (AGPL) and commercial. iText’s customers (software developers, technology vendors, software integrators) span the fields of technology, financial, public, government and health care sectors including many of the Fortune 500 companies. iText has dedicated international teams with offices in Belgium (Ghent), South Korea (Seoul), Singapore and in the USA (Boston).