It is a technology platform based on digital technology, which is in line with the characteristics of traditional paper. It is used to e-turn traditional paper-based applications. Digital paper technology makes the original paper-based use habits, regulations, working methods, and so on can smoothly transition to digital form, which provides key technical support for promoting informatization.
Digital paper technology at least has the following characteristics: strong enough to describe the layout, all that can be printed on paper can be expressed: in different computer environments can maintain the same layout; existing content can not be tampered with by any operation; indivisible, the official seal in the document can not be separated and reused elsewhere. It also has metadata, navigation, automatic reading guide, hyperlink, embedded information security, and other enhanced digital features, as well as the common features of digital technology, such as small footprint, easy retrieval, unlimited distance transmission, undistorted replication, storage replication, almost zero transmission cost and processing time.
A general technology platform that can simulate the characteristics of paper and be used by various application systems has become a key technology of information construction, which is also the goal of digital paper technology. It is an emerging core technology of the IT industry, which will develop to an industry height similar to database technology in the future, and become the key technology to leverage the huge market of hundreds of billions of dollars.
In 1993, adobe, the world's largest desktop software manufacturer, launched PDF technology, becoming the first company in the world to launch digital paper technology. Only two years later, Beijing Shusheng company also developed China's own digital paper technology SEP technology. This is probably the smallest gap between China's IT industry and foreign major advanced technologies in its history.
Although the application of these digital paper technologies is still a drop in the bucket compared with the application of tens of millions of tons of traditional paper every year, it means that the application of digital paper technology in some fields has been mature. As a mature technology, the value of digital paper technology is self-evident, its development "end" of traditional paper will only be a matter of time.
We know that Oracle, which relies on one of the three forms of information technology (structured data, written information, streaming media, and database), has become the third-largest software company in the world. Both economic and social benefits have created extraordinary performance. With the continuous development of IT technology, it will be a trend for information to enter the field of unstructured data. Therefore, the digital paper technology dealing with written information will be another mainstream technology of information technology. Because almost all paper-based applications can use this technology to do the digital transformation.
Therefore, as another core technology of information technology, digital paper, and related technologies will have a profound impact on the application of traditional paper, and will directly drive a huge industry. So as to promote the development of related industrial chain. Such as the publishing industry, various e-government, ERP, OA, MIS, and other applications, library and information industry, knowledge management, data mining, printers, scanners, digital cameras, mass storage devices, display devices, PDA, tablet computers, smart phones, etc.
According to the preliminary calculation, in 10 years, the technology and its related applications will form a market of 100 billion in China and 100 billion US dollars in the world.
In a sense, digital paper technology is "papermaking" in the digital era. China's first papermaking technology made bamboo into the paper instead of bamboo slips, which led to the historical progress of the first information carrier. The second "papermaking" movement will start with digital paper technology. Therefore, the digital paper is likely to become the second invention of papermaking.