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Rock Climbing Wednesdays

Whether it’s a company activity like white water rafting or go karting or if it’s outside of the office, our employees are far from desk monkeys.  We tend to be pretty active and a growing group of our San Francisco Nitronauts has taken it to a new level.  Organized by our one and only Adrian ... Read more

Nitro Tutorial: OCR

With Nitro Pro 7 and Optical Character Recognition (OCR), you can quickly and easily create searchable and/or editable PDF files from entire archives of paper- or image-based documents. We just put together a quick how-to video showcasing it. Check it out below! Learn more about OCR and try Nitro Pro 7 free for 14-days. Read more

Building a Team: Knowing Brilliance when you see it

Post by Tihomir (Tiho) Bajic.  Tiho joined Nitro in November 2011 as VP, Product Engineering with a daunting mandate: to build out Nitro’s San Francisco product and engineering teams in the midst of what’s been described as the “hiring-pocalypse”.  Needless to say, it’s been an adventure.  This is chapter one.   Over the years I’ve looked ... Read more
 

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Nitro Fan of the Month

We love our users—especially those of you who loyally like, retweet, and share our news announcements!   So now it’s time to return the favor…   We’re launching our “Fan of the Month” club to recognize those of you who have been Nitro-nuts from the beginning, just recently, or anywhere in between!   So, how ... Read more
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Announcing a new face on Nitro’s Board of Directors… Welcome, Anthony Glenning!

We’re excited to welcome Anthony Glenning, Investment Director of Starfish Ventures and Founder and CEO of Tonic Systems (the guys behind the online presentation software acquired by Google and incorporated into Google Docs), as the newest member of our Board. You can read the “official” press release here. His appointment coincides with Starfish Ventures’ recent ... Read more
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Life at Nitro: San Francisco

We talk a lot about culture at Nitro; it’s what differentiates us as a company, and – outside of our products – it’s the one thing that represents all the unique people, personalities, and everything that makes us, well…. Us.   We’re hiring a lot of people in 2012, so we put this short video ... Read more

Melbourne gets some new Nitronauts

We just hired two more Nitronauts to help with making the products you guys use even better!  Frank Ziegler, Project Manager, and Alex Lieu, Technical Support Representative, just joined our team down in Melbourne.  Frank is going to be instrumental in developing future Nitro products faster and more efficiently and Alex will be adding another ... Read more
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Nitro Pro 7 is now available in 5 more languages!

We just launched our localized-language versions of www.nitropdf.com as well as Nitro Pro 7 in French, Spanish, German, Dutch, and Italian!  Thanks to all our non-English speaking users and customers for waiting so long, and apologies for the delay; translating a 30,000 word Web site into 5 languages (not to mention the product!) isn’t an ... Read more
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Nitro SF goes bowling

This past week we had a team outing for our San Francisco office at the new Lucky Strike bowling alley down the street.  Although no one quite had the skills of The Dude, there were still plenty of White Russians, beers, and even a few strikes!  Check out some of the pictures including some of ... Read more
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To 2012, and beyond: big news and big plans

It’s been one hell of a journey from 2005 to here. In fact, it’s been such a journey that we needed an infographic (yes, another) just to condense everything that’s happened into a vaguely digestible format. You can download it here, or scroll down to view it in its glorious entirety.   The news Back to ... Read more
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