USE CASE DOCSHIFTER AUTOMATION IN OPENTEXT DOCUMENTUM
Are you using OpenText Documentum to store & manage your submission content?
Combined with the power of DocShifter, take submission document preparation automation to the next level.
- Automatically check & fix Word & PDF files for compliance
- Generate submission-ready PDFs from virtual documents
- Automate report compilation from virtual documents or ZIP files
- Trigger automation in OpenText Documentum based on metadata, status update, or document lifecycle

Achieve document compliance in OpenText Documentum much easier. With powerful document automation.
Win valuable time by merging Binders or ZIP files into reports.
Without any manual work.
Create compliant PDFs for one or multiple health authorities simultaneously
Leading pharmaceutical & biotechnology companies use DocShifter to create simultaneous compliant PDF renditions for multiple regions.
Take your submission documents in various formats in OpenText Documentuım, and create FDA, PMDA, EMA compliant PDFs. High quality, navigation-rich, text searchable.
Compliant PDFs. Without any manual work.
DocShifter’s PDF+ offers hundreds of PDF configuration options and is designed to handle the most demanding of health authority technical requirements.
Win valuable time by merging virtual documents into compliant reports. Without any manual work.
Monitor for status update, metadata or lifecycle in OpenText Documentum
Simply define what content you want to go into the report. DocShifter will monitor triggers in your OpenText Documentum environment, and automate the creation of your report by merging documents together.
Say goodbye to manually adding cover pages, table of content, pagination and many more.
Monitoring the job queue and ssing triggers in OpenText Documentum to automate report generation
When your documents reach a certain lifecycle status, or when a certain document lifecycle is reached, or when a document is checked in OpenText Documentum, the defined DocShifter workflow will kick in to pick up documents and automatically create a report.
You can define routes to handle documents in specific ways. For example, 1 DocShifter workflow can be configured to watch for both clinical and IMPD documents and handle them differently.
Automated Word content preparation for content stored in OpenText Documentum
Automate Word authoring
Reduce the pain of preparing content for regulatory submissions. Allow your teams to focus on the content, and not on the styling. Speed up your regulatory submissions, accelerate time to market.
Check and fix MS Word documents for styling and formatting errors.
Automated checks for your Word documents in OpenText Documentum.
Automatically check for issues with:
- Paragraph
- Tables
- Linking
- Images
- Styles
- Headings
Auto validate PDF documents against internal and external guidelines. Automatically fix any outstanding issues.
Do my PDFs meet specific requirements?
DocShifter’s PDFValidator automatically validates PDF files against health authority and other technical compliance guidelines, regardless of the original application it was created in. With automated validation, PDFValidator ensures all PDFs included in a regulatory submission are technically compliant. Without exception.
Check for a wide range of issues
Automate PDF content checking and validation for your PDFs stored in OpenText Documentum.
Check and fix issues related with:
- Bookmarks
- PDF properties & security issues
- Page
- Hyperlinks
- Font and initial view
- Annotation and tex
Automatically convert virtual documents PDF content into submission-ready PDF with the right PDF specifications
Partnering with confidence
DocShifter streamlines submissions for a large US-based biotech company by generating 30,000 compliant ready PDFs every month.
A US-based biotech company achieves 60% time savings in document preparaiton and speeds up time to market by 30% thanks to automated PDF checking and fixing.
No more manually merging Microsoft Word files into PDF reports. Automated Report Level Publishing for 510k and PMA Submissions for a Medical Devices Company.
PharmaLex, a technology-enabled solution provider in the Life Sciences industry, partnered with DocShifter to streamline their complex PDF-submission process for their 1000+ clients worldwide. So what changed?
Are you looking for ways to further automate and simplify the way you prepare content for submissions in OpenText Documentum?
Everything you need to know is explained in a 30 minute session.
What are the challenges and limitations of PDF manipulation for compliance in life sciences?
What role does automation play?
Do you recognize these challenges?
Your renditions generated in OpenText Documentum are not submission-ready
You are not able to create consolidated, compliant PDFs from virtual documents
You spend a lot of time / effort to ensure document compliance for submissions
Discover how DocShifter strengthens OpenText Documentum to simplify and accelerate your submissions
Book your personalized conversation & demo today
- A conversation to discuss your project, and your specific requirements
- A walk through / live-demo of the software solution you are interested in
- A customized demo that is about your project and needs
- Explore why leading pharmaceutical companies that use OpenText Documentum trust DocShifter
Frequently Asked Questions
DocShifter works with Linux, Windows, Docker/Kubernetes; 32GB RAM, 50GB storage, JAva JRE or JDK, and Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio. Please contact us here to talk to us about more specific details for your environment.
From scaling content to fit the defined page size, automatically setting the page size based on the content – and even converting each sheet to a single PDF page – there are multiple options available when handling Excel files in DocShifter.
Absolutely. DocShifter can recognize if a PDF file is signed and process it differently from non-signed content. PDfs can be flattened if required, and original signed PDFs can be attached to converted PDF files to retain any of the original signatures.
DocShifter allows for fully-automated OCR from any file format supported, which includes all image formats listed in a given RFP. The accuracy of results will depend on the quality of the image being processed via OCR, so the required 90% guarantee cannot be achieved without the quality of the content source also being guaranteed.
DocShifter’s software can be deployed on-premise or in your cloud (AWS/Azure/Google). On Microsoft Windows or Linux. Either directly onto hardware, using VMWare or in a Docker / Kubernetes infrastructure.
Absolutely. It’s something we have plenty of experience in. Head over to our Document Conversion Services page to find out how DocShifter’s team can handle all of your document conversion project needs.