The DocHawk 1.2 service adds the power of zoom and true-font rendering to PDF file viewing.Terratial Technologies has launched a server-based service designed to enable full viewing and zoom viewing of PDFs and other formats on BlackBerry handheld devices.
Klaus Obermeier, founder and CEO of Atlanta-based Terratial Technologies Corp., said DocHawk 1.2 adds the power of zoom and true-font rendering to PDF file viewing. The service also enables viewing of eFax (TIFF), jConnect (JFX), MS PowerPoint, MS Word, and JPEG, PNG and GIF files.
Using the service, subscribers forward an e-mail with the attached document to the DocHawk server, and identified staff or collaborative teams receive a link identifying where the document can be retrieved.
Once users click on the link of the document, they can view it by selecting the thumbnail of the page they want to view in full. Users also can apply the zoom level to browse through a document, Obermeier said.
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"This subscription service also gives BlackBerry users the ability not only to view just standard PDFs, but to view scanned PDFs or special-character PDFs like logos. And it comes with four zoom-viewing levels for users, which makes it unique in regard to other offerings on the market."
The DocHawk Platinum service, including PDF viewing capability, is available as a hosted solution in which subscribers can pay $29.95 for a three-month subscription or a flat rate of $89.95 yearly. Companies also can purchase a basic server license for hosting in-house for $9.95 a month per user node.
Obermeier said his aim was to produce a powerful thin-client utility requiring no installation so that users could avoid possible system crashes when using the application.
DocHawk has multiple viewing capabilities, allowing instantaneous team collaboration and approval for any document.
"With the hosted service, a specified group of collaborative users can share and view documents simultaneously. Wherever the document is, the person who has it just sends a link of the document to all the people in the group who then instantly view the document," Obermeier said.
The hosted service processes more than 2,000 documents a day, Obermeier said. He estimates that the service has more than 500 subscribers, including single- and multiple-user licensees.
DocHawk is compatible with Linux, .NET and Windows, and Obermeier said the company is looking into producing a MAC OS X-compatible version as well.
For the next release, Obermeier said the company will focus on giving users the ability to process an unlimited number of pages in files and save them on the BlackBerry as well.
Additional pricing and licensing information can be found on the company Web site.
