London, England, 27 October 2005, - BFO (Big Faceless Organization), a global supplier of java reporting solutions, strengthens the acclaimed Big Faceless PDF Library with the addition of text and image extraction.

The 2.6.2 release adds the ability to extract text and bitmap images from PDF documents, as well as index the PDF using the Apache Lucene search engine. The library extracts and indexes text in Unicode from the form fields, annotations and document metadata as well as the document body, and ......

London, England, 14 November 2005, - BFO (Big Faceless Organization), in an unprecedented move, today confirms that all new versions of its software will be free of charge to clients with support contracts. In addition, it will freeze its current prices for the Big Faceless PDF Library, Report Generator and Graph Library for the next twelve months until November 2006.

An emerging major concern for business is calculating ongoing software costs which often spiral after the initial purchase with the relea......

London, England, 16 December 2005, - BFO (Big Faceless Organization), provider of high quality Java software components, has just made developers lives a little easier by adding full web services support to its new Big Faceless Graph Library.

Web services are a generic term for loosely coupled service providers running over HTTP. They allow short-term cooperation between processes running on widely distributed systems, sometimes even in different organizations. The Graph Library 2.1 utilizes this techno......

London, England, 24 March 2006 - BFO (Big Faceless Organization), a global supplier of java reporting solutions, today announced the release of version 2.6.7 of the Big Faceless PDF Library. Governments demand it. Large organizations need it. BFO delivers it. Version 2.6.7 of the PDF Library adds support for the ISO-19005:2005 standard, commonly known as PDF/A.

The new 2.6.7 release addresses the growing need for long-term archiving of information electronically. Documents can be retrieved and rendered ......

London, England, 30 May 2006, - Big Faceless Organization (BFO), provider of high quality Java software components, is now working with Columbia University's renowned Chemistry department to help move undergraduate applications into the 21st century.

Columbia University's Department of Chemistry has hosted the National Science Foundation's Research Experience (NSFRE) for undergraduates for 20 years. In that time the application process has gone from a totally paper orientated format to ......

London, England, 06 July 2006, - Big Faceless Organization (BFO), provider of high quality Java software components, have enhanced the industry leading Big Faceless PDF Library.

BFO are delighted to announce the release of version 2.6.11 of their award winning Java class library. This maintenance release offers big improvements when converting PDF documents to TIFF images - the images are now half the size of previous versions, and memory consumption has dropped by up to 75% for some documents. As ......

London, England, 19 July 2006, - Big Faceless Organization (BFO), provider of high quality Java software components, has established an exciting partnership with ConverSpeech, provider of text data mining software to life science institutions.

ConverSpeech have a long standing affiliation with the Human Genome Institute of the National Institute of Health (NIH), where they have helped implement a system that analyzes full-text articles saving academics and curators time finding critical information withi......

London, England, 23 August 2006, - Big Faceless Organization (BFO), provider of high quality Java software components, are delighted to announce the launch of their affiliate program.

If you own a website or blog you can profit by promoting the Big Faceless product suite; PDF Library, Report Generator and Graph Library. For each completed transaction re-directed from your website you will earn 10% commission. To make your life easier all marketing material is supplied by BFO and is easy to upload. BFO en......

London, England, 4 September 2006, - Big Faceless Organization (BFO), provider of high quality Java software components, are proud to announce the upcoming 5th birthday of the Report Generator.

The Report Generator was first launched in October 2001, and has gone on from strength to strength. It is the leading Java component for converting XML to PDF documents. Clients such as Siemens, Boeing, KPMG and Columbia University have all benefited from implementing Big Faceless Organization's flagship pro......