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Featured News
September 2026 by PDF Association staff
The PDF Association has published two new PDF/UA-1 Technical Notes on the Use of ActualText on Figure structure elements and … Read more
Our Valued Members
PDF is not inherently a problem for AI. The structure of a PDF needs to correspond to the content and … Read more
With the new axesWord Beta, you can now check the accessibility of your Word documents directly in axesWord. The new … Read more
Higher education institutions create and share countless PDFs, from course materials and syllabi to research papers, forms, and handbooks. Learn … Read more
ChatGPT now adds Content Credentials to generated PDFs, but a structural error can make those files incompatible with PDF/X. Dietrich … Read more
UPDF offers new resources for real-estate how agents, brokers, and property teams so they can review disclosures, compare offers, digitize … Read more
The new PDF to PostScript API Tool gives print, prepress, and publishing teams a configurable way to generate production-ready PostScript … Read more
This document provides clarification on consuming Reference structure elements with link annotations.
This document provides clarification on non-text graphics objects representing text.
PDF isn’t inherently a problem for AI – the real challenge is how documents are ingested. Boris Doubrov explains why … Read more
JPedal now validates PDF structure against the Arlington PDF Model, helping identify errors that may not be visible when a … Read more
Foxit PDF Editor 2026.2 introduces Foxit AI Workspace and an on-device AI Assistant with Bring Your Own Model support, alongside … Read more
The release introduces improvements to accessibility and keyboard navigation, error visualization, validation accuracy, localization to Korean language and application stability.
Home of the worldwide
PDF technical community
Featured News
September 2026 by PDF Association staff
The PDF Association has published two new PDF/UA-1 Technical Notes on the Use of ActualText on Figure structure elements and … Read more
Our Valued Members
PDF is not inherently a problem for AI. The structure of a PDF needs to correspond to the content and … Read more
With the new axesWord Beta, you can now check the accessibility of your Word documents directly in axesWord. The new … Read more
Higher education institutions create and share countless PDFs, from course materials and syllabi to research papers, forms, and handbooks. Learn … Read more
ChatGPT now adds Content Credentials to generated PDFs, but a structural error can make those files incompatible with PDF/X. Dietrich … Read more
UPDF offers new resources for real-estate how agents, brokers, and property teams so they can review disclosures, compare offers, digitize … Read more
The new PDF to PostScript API Tool gives print, prepress, and publishing teams a configurable way to generate production-ready PostScript … Read more
This document provides clarification on consuming Reference structure elements with link annotations.
This document provides clarification on non-text graphics objects representing text.
PDF isn’t inherently a problem for AI – the real challenge is how documents are ingested. Boris Doubrov explains why … Read more
JPedal now validates PDF structure against the Arlington PDF Model, helping identify errors that may not be visible when a … Read more
Foxit PDF Editor 2026.2 introduces Foxit AI Workspace and an on-device AI Assistant with Bring Your Own Model support, alongside … Read more
The release introduces improvements to accessibility and keyboard navigation, error visualization, validation accuracy, localization to Korean language and application stability.