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Document Management with GroupDocs

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Derek
The GroupDocs dashboard provides you with several features for organizing files and folders. The new dashboard is very user friendly, so you get familiar with it pretty quickly. In this post, we focus on the GroupDocs dashboard. I’m going to list some of GroupDocs dashboard’s key features useful for document management:
  • Perform actions easily: One of the main features of the GroupDocs dashboard is it intuitiveness. For instance, it’s easy to access the action menu and perform actions
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What is GroupDocs Assembly?

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Derek
Last week, I mentioned changes that we’re making to GroupDocs Assembly to make it more intuitive. Document assembly (also known as document automation) is an aspect of document management that you might not be familiar with, so this week I’ll discuss what it is and how it can be used in more detail.

Document Management?

You’ve found your way to GroupDocs and the GroupDocs blog so chances are that you have an idea about document management. It’s simply the… Continue Reading
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Introducing GroupDocs Assembly’s New Look and Feel

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Derek
We’re continuing work on the new and improved GroupDocs look and feel. We’re told you that we’re making changes to the GroupDocs dashboard and GroupDocs Viewer, and we’re also changing GroupDocs Annotation. We’re not stopping there. We’re also making changes to GroupDocs Assembly. GroupDocs Assembly is an app that lets you automate document assembly and automation. Think of your document as a form that you can use to create several new documents from. You start with a… Continue Reading
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Announcing New Features of the GroupDocs’ Annotation App

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Derek
GroupDocs Annotation is a web-based app that allows users to annotate PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents online, from a web-browser. With this app, you and your colleagues and partners can review and annotate a document simultaneously, in real time. We’re constantly working to improve the app’s interface and would like to introduce a new set of features we’ve recently designed and implemented.

Add and Manage Notes

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GroupDocs’ Online Signature App Dashboard: The New Look and Feel

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Derek
We’re constantly working to improve the functionality and user interface of our online document management apps. Today we introduce our online signature app’s new user interface. The changes we are about to discuss are coming within the next weeks.

An Overview of the New Online Signature App Interface

The new GroupDocs Signature dashboard will look a lot like the main GroupDocs dashboard so it will feel familiar to GroupDocs users. We developed a completely new workflow which leads you through… Continue Reading
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Announcing The New GroupDocs’ Online Signature Service Features

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Derek
GroupDocs Signature is an online signature service that lets you collect signatures without the administrative overhead of printing, stuffing envelopes and posting. Simply email documents to your signers and wait for them to be signed. GroupDocs’ online signature app is platform and software independent: the only thing a user needs to sign a document is a web browser, no additional software is required.

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Introducing The New GroupDocs Dashboard and Online Document Viewer UI

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Derek
We’re about to launch a new interface for the GroupDocs Dashboard and our online document viewer app. We have overhauled the look and feel of the tools to make them more intuitive to use. At the moment, we’re adding the final touches and making sure that everything works fine. The changes will be live in the next few weeks. Here’s what will change when the new interface goes live: Dashboard interface:
  • Easier navigation thanks to added breadcrumbs;
  • All applications
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Performing document conversion and image conversion with GroupDocs

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Derek
Earlier this week I talked about document conversion, including image conversion, and why you’d want to do it. Today, I’ll show you how to perform two tasks: first, how to convert the pages in a document to images and then how to convert an image from one format to another. Document conversion is one of the services that GroupDocs offers. You can convert documents you’ve uploaded to a number of different formats. Exactly which formats depends on the… Continue Reading
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6 Situations When You Need to Convert Documents

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Derek
One of the features that GroupDocs offers is document conversion, converting documents from one file formats to another. There are lots of different reasons why this is such a big deal. If you’ve never been sent a file you couldn’t open, or had a file you sent somewhere returned to you because the recipient couldn’t open it – you’ve been lucky! It is becoming much easier to send documents from one application or operating system to another. In the… Continue Reading
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Sharing Documents Online Through GroupDocs

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Derek
GroupDocs lets you collaborate with colleagues or friends in different ways. We’ve described how to upload documents and how to use GroupDocs Signature. Today, we’re going back to basics. The first step to collaboration is sharing ideas and documents. With GroupDocs, sharing documents is easy and safe. You and your colleagues can work together without having to worry whether you have the same applications or the same operating systems and versions.

Collaboration: sharing a document through GroupDocs

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