If PDF becomes a required standard format for document images, will Adobe have a de facto monopoly?
Actually, PDF is not a standard in the courts. PDF is a standard for sending, but because all the imaging systems at the court level are TIFF image-based, courts expect that the PDF will be converted to TIFF. TIFF was adopted by the Association of Information and Image Management (AIIM) as a standard image platform in 1993. All of the imaging systems now using the Group 4 TIFF standard, so any particular imaging system file can be seen by all other imaging systems. Current fax machines use Group 3 TIFF (150 dots per inches), and the next generation of fax will used Group 4 (200-300 dpi), which has slightly higher resolution. 5. Do you see nationwide standards being implemented? Yes, definitely. The main concept of electronic filing is document and data exchange. So the standards revolve around document image standards (discussed above) and data tagging standards. In e-filing, data meta-tagging originated as Legal XML 1.0 and 1.1. California is now working on Legal XML 2.0. Right now, L
