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April 2025 by Duff Johnson

What does it take to build the organizational skills and resources necessary to succeed in ensuring PDF documents are accessible?
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A perspective on and insights into AI policy – and the associated implications for digital documents.
PDFs are everywhere today. The majority are transaction documents. Markus Mayer and Markus Erle show you how to achieve PDF … Read more
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming the field of digital accessibility—but what does this mean for one of the most stubborn … Read more
Presenters will be: Markus Erle, axes4 Aleksander Pavkovic (BBSB Bayrischer Blinden- und Sehbehindertenbund) (Bavarian Association for the Blind and Visually … Read more
The presentation is prepared by the 3 chairs of the PDF Accessibility LWG: Zak Kinsey, Birgit Peböck and Markus Erle. … Read more
We analyse large volume of real world PDF coming from two public sources: Digital Corpora (8M PDFs) randomly crawled PDFs … Read more
This session shows how to take control with one strategy for both historic and in-production documents, transforming them into PDF/UA-compliant … Read more
PDF documents are foundational to secure communication in industries like legal, finance, and healthcare, yet ensuring their authenticity, integrity, and … Read more
Print is booming in areas such as packaging, label and display. Modern prepress and print workflows relying on the PDF … Read more
This presentation introduces an open source implementation of the canonical serialization algorithm defined in ISO 16684-2:2014, integrated into the PoDoFo … Read more
Recent advances in generative AI have captured the headlines in recent years and its advantages and limitations are well known … Read more
Home of the worldwide
PDF technical community


Featured News
April 2025 by Duff Johnson

What does it take to build the organizational skills and resources necessary to succeed in ensuring PDF documents are accessible?
Our Valued Members
callas software has published a comprehensive white paper to assist in navigating the discussions around standards, preflight checks, corrections, reports, … Read more
Accessibility | veraPDF version 1.28.1 | Chrome PDF features updates | Transparency blending | Screen readers and special characters | … Read more
kwsoft® has published the new release 6.16 of its CCM solution Serie M/. See some highlights of Release 6.16 at … Read more
JLB INFORMATIQUE, a French pioneer in information management software, begins a new chapter as Élodie Tellier takes over as owner … Read more
Adobe PDF Print Engine 7.0 was announced at the 2025 FESPA conference in Berlin and will be available in August … Read more
Crawford Technologies announced the availability of AccessibilityNow® Gateway Enterprise, a solution designed to meet an enterprise’s large-scale accessibility requirements enabling … Read more
What does it take to build the organizational skills and resources necessary to succeed in ensuring PDF documents are accessible?
PDFix releases a smart system to automate complex PDF accessibility workflows. The new Pipeline framework simplifies document processing with customizable, … Read more
pdfRest introduces Redact PDF, a new API tool that enables developers to permanently and reliably remove sensitive text from PDF … Read more
The latest release of the Adobe PDF Library SDK from Datalogics includes a host of new features and critical updates … Read more
Crawford Technologies reports on the success of its sixth annual Industry Summit held April 3-4 in Chicago. The presentations offered valuable … Read more
UPDF reaches two significant milestones with a major upgrade to GPT-4.1 in UPDF AI and receiving the Geekflare Editor’s Choice … Read more