IT solutions provider LuraTech has opened a subsidiary in the UK appointing Gary Hodkinson as managing director.

Hodkinson possess an important track record of successfully establishing companies in the document conversion market. His previous positions include European partner manager at ActionPoint (subsequently purchased by Captiva and EMC), and the MD for Paradatec Ltd.

The Luratech has its headquarters in Berlin, Germany and offices in the USA and provides integration platforms and production-level document conversion software solutions.

Founded in 1995, the company provides two major product lines are the LuraDocument PDF Compressor Enterprise - a production grade application for compression, conversion to PDF(/A), OCR, classification and form data extraction, and DocYard - a complete platform integrating all the functions of document conversion in workflows, which can be managed centrally.