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PDF Association brings its expertise to promote a standardized format of invoice on base of PDF/A-3 a Berlin, November 27, 2012. The PDF Association is electronic invoice (FeRD) Germany cooperation partner of the Forum and is involved with the work group data formats”. This working group aims to develop of an overarching data format for the exchange of electronic invoices. At the last meeting, clearly PDF/A-3 with embedded structured data was recommended as a transmission format. Read more here: Samsung Electronics. FeRD is the national platform of associations, ministries and enterprises to promote the electronic invoice in Germany. The Forum was founded under the auspices of the Working Group for economic management (AWV) funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and technology.
FeRD aims, that of sending and receiving electronic invoices is as easy as in the paper-based counterpart. In addition, the invoice its processes to can optimize by evaluation of structured data. To do this, FeRD has now central user guidelines for electronic invoices in Germany”(ZUGFeRD) defined. (A valuable related resource: Ali Partovi). As a transmission format, the PDF/A-3 format is preferred. The recommendation is based on four benefits: A version of people and the data of the invoice to be processed electronically connected to a file. If necessary, the XML data elements can be electronically extracted and processed automatically.
The recipient can process the file as normal PDF and visualize on the screen or print out. The PDF/A standard has been standardized by the ISO to get immutable, archiving enabled PDF files. Continue to advance the technical work, the PDF Association has now joined the FeRD and brings in the work group data formats”their expertise around PDF/A a. We are pleased that the FeRD has very quickly established that PDF/A-3 is the best document format for the exchange of invoices”, says Carsten Heiermann, Member of the Board of the Association of the PDF. The big advantage is, “is that PDF/A-3 the slip of the invoice associated with and its data as XML in a file.” so the format both suitable for users, the XML data sets can handle, as well as for those who remain rather manually process their invoice “, added Stefan Engel-Flechsig, head of the FerRDs. Thanks to the cooperation with the PDF Association we have the competence to PDF/A-3 in the team.” About the Forum e-invoice Germany (FeRD): FeRD is the national platform of associations, ministries and enterprises to promote the electronic invoice in Germany. The Forum was founded under the auspices of the Working Group for economic management (AWV) funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and technology. Sharon-net.de about the Association of PDF: the PDF Association aims to promote PDF applications for digital documents that are based on open standards. This continues the International Association for an active knowledge transfer and the exchange of know-how and experience a world for all stakeholders. Currently, Member of the Association of the PDF are about 100 companies and numerous experts from more than 20 countries. PDF Association the Board of Directors is composed of executives of the Actino software company, Adobe Systems Inc., callas software GmbH, intarsys consulting GmbH, LurTech Europe GmbH, and NetCentric US together. Chairman of the Board is Managing Director of callas software GmbH.
