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January 30, 2008
Scottish Startup Makes 10X Smaller PDFs
Ten X claims catch our attention, which is the reason we did not pass on a PR from Crisp Documents, a Glasgow-based startup that sent us the news that it won an industry award (industry awards don't normally get coverage here).
Instead we dug up a couple of reports on the company in the local newspaper, The Herald to learn more about the business and its patented encoding software that it says reduces dramatically the size of a PDF and other file types.
Even with broadband, we know that PDF docs are still a pain.
It seems the company had a profitable first year, generating £800K in sales using its vPDF software (see examples in the images we snagged from one of its website) to underpin a new document archiving and management service.
Its latest contract win is with the US DoD in December. It looks like for organizations that run heavy on the documentation side, better file compression is much wanted.
The founders, Greg Stobie and Lorne Campbell, liquidated their pensions and re-mortgaged their homes to start the business, turned down an offer from Microsoft early on, and are intent to run the 15-person strong business at speed with an eye on the US market.
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