The TWAIN Working Group (TWG) and the PDF Association, have announced PDF/R (a.k.a. PDF/raster), an ISO-standardized format for storing, transporting and exchanging multi-page raster-image documents, such as scanned documents and photographs.

The Digital Transformation Authority (DTA) has launched a new Cloud Marketplace for Australian Commonwealth government agencies that includes more than 300 providers.

iText has announced the availability of iText DITO 2.0, the next generation of its template engine that converts data into PDFs. This release adds the iText DITO Manager for a workspace control room experience and a central repository for all templates, data collections and resources.

Cortical.io has announced Message intelligence 2.1, an intelligent document processing solution (IDP) that provides high accuracy in filtering, classification, and extraction of emails, attachments, and other types of unstructured documents.

AI startup Sorcero Inc. is releasing a free open source software ingestion framework it calls Ingestum.

Managed and Professional Services provider Insentra will distribute Archive360’s Archive2Azure platform exclusively across A/NZ adding to its growing ISV portfolio which already includes IGEL, Nulia and Torsion Information Security.

Clarifai has announced a set of new offerings based on its deep learning AI platform for managing unstructured image, video, text and audio data.

Worksoft, a provider of end-to-end enterprise automation for complex custom and packaged applications like SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Workday and more, has announced the expansion of its Connective Automation Platform to include AI-driven analytics capabilities.

M-Files has acquired the French company Hubshare – which also has offices in Sydney and Hong Kong – to strengthen external content sharing and collaboration. 

US legal technology developer Litera has announced the acquisition of Australia’s DocsCorp and its suite of software and services for document professionals who use enterprise content management systems.