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10 years of eDocView

10 years of eDocView
10 years of eDocView from 2014-2024

The foundation for eDocView was laid in 2014. Our powerful and platform-independent software solution for viewing and markup has now been established for 10 years and is installed on many thousands of computers.

Looking back, we are enjoying numerous functional extensions that we have been able to integrate with and for our customers in recent years.

  • Support of the latest Java technology
  • Enhancement of the flexibility of the user interface
  • Enhancement of text annotation to support automatic adjustments
  • Extended search functions with additional search parameters and support of Boolean operators
  • Accelerated scrolling behavior
  • Accessibility, adaptation of the user interface and support of the JAWS screen reader for visually impaired people

After 10 years of use and extensive communication with users and IT departments, we are proud to be an integral part of many thousands of workplaces. eDocView is deeply embedded into our customers’ processes and helps to make the rapidly advancing digitalization a little more convenient.

Extract from our customer index

eDocView offers its customers a comprehensive API, which makes it extremely adaptable. On this page, we present an extract of our customer index and show successful examples for the integration of eDocView into various business areas.

Multiformat Viewer eDocView for Embedment in the IT process rvDialog® at the DRV Bund

Integration into any existing DMS or ECM system is possible.
Integration into any existing DMS or ECM system is possible.

The German Retirement Insurance (Deutsche Rentenversicherung (DRV) Bund, formerly BfA) began some time ago with the implementation of storage and viewing of files electronically. The main reasons were:

  • Acceleration of the processing times for procedures on insurant cases.
  • Cost reduction by avoiding storage of the paper files.

The system for electronic file processing, developed by DRV Bund, was integrated into the dialogue rvDialog®, which is responsible for processing insurant cases. With the step-by-step transition to paperless file processing resulting from the introduction of the dialogue, the task was to provide a processing environment for the electronic documents with a multiformat viewer. Thus, the IT services of the DRV Bund were looking for a very simple and secure solution for viewing and processing (redlining) of different document formats.

For the selection of the viewer the following main criteria were defined:

  • The solution had to be integrated into the existing rvDialog® system.
  • The viewer should be able to view documents of different sources equally (scanned paper documents, office documents, medical records, etc.).
  • Programmatically, the viewer had to be integrated into the rvDialog® system with the same user interface for all possible file formats. Thus, the processing department had to know only one user interface and its operation for all different file formats.
  • The viewing component should allow the step from a fat client application to a server-based Java application.
  • Viewing component features should be made available to the developers through an API so that the viewer could be integrated using a user-defined interface.
  • The viewer should meet the legal requirements for the display of the insurant related documents (https, electronic signature, etc.).

After a Europe-wide call for proposals, Research Engineers REI GmbH & Co. KG was awarded to develop and supply a corresponding viewing and redlining solution, which is to be used by more than 20,000 users within the DRV Bund. The JAVA Viewing and Redlining Tool eDocView, already installed in many DMS & ECM systems, was used as the basis for this development.

However, for the integration into the existing rvDialog® system, eDocView could not be used in its original form as a pure JAVA applet, but had to be provided encapsulated as a JAVA Bean in an ActiveX interface. This design allows the direct use of eDocView as an ActiveX component in rvDialog and allows the options to use it as a local Java application (as a Java Bean) as well as a real server-based thin application.

In summary, the integration of eDocView in rvDialog® provided the following results:

  • The eDocView API and architecture provided a simple integration according to the requirements of the rvDialog® system and ensures openness for future expansion stages.
  • The eDocView Viewer component supports the rvDialog® system in a uniform way by displaying various types of data and accelerates the processing of the documents.