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Our mission

Delivering a vendor-neutral platform for developing open specifications and standards for PDF technology.

Our vision

Driving the world’s digital document format into the 21st century and beyond.


FEATURED NEWS

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New large-scale PDF corpus now publicly available

This new corpus – nearly 8 million PDFs totaling about 8 TB – was gathered from across the web in July/August of 2021.

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Home of the worldwide PDF technical community

Mission statement

To provide a vendor-neutral platform for the developers, users and other stakeholders of open specifications and standards for PDF technology and digital document technologies.

Vision statement

To facilitate common understanding and interoperability between developers using PDF’s specifications and standards.


FEATURED NEWS

Planet Earth with the light of cities illuminating Europe and the Middle East.


New large-scale PDF corpus now publicly available

This new corpus – nearly 8 million PDFs totaling about 8 TB – was gathered from across the web in July/August of 2021.

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MORE NEWS

Case study
May 31, 2023

As an active user of Salesforce for managing contacts and donations, UNICEF Switzerland and Liechtenstein was looking for a more …

Peter Wyatt
May 13, 2023

A new PDF Association service will provide targeted test-cases to highlight interoperability issues resolved in the latest PDF specification.

The PDF Association has volunteered to host a new Liaison Working Group (LWG) to bring together experts from both PDF/X …

Article Tony McKinley
April 19, 2023

Author and longtime PDF evangelist Tony McKinley’s latest book, “PDF Expert”, shares his experience working directly with the world’s most …

Now anyone can download the latest PDF specification, ISO 32000-2, at NO COST! What are you waiting for?

Article John Brinkman
March 27, 2023

The May meeting of the PDF Forms TWG will begin work on a draft specification for declarative forms in PDF.

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Core Communities

Chaired by Stuart Galt

PDF support for engineering applications.

Chaired by Roman Toda

Exploring pathways to expressing PDF content in HTML.

Advancing forms technology in PDF.

PDF errata, new features and ISO 32000.

Archiving PDF, including ISO 19005.

Accessible PDF, including oversight of ISO 14289.

FEATURED EVENTS

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PDF Week Fall 2023

This event combines in-person PDF Association TWG and LWG meeting with respective meetings of ISO TC 171 SC 2.

UPCOMING EVENTS

PDF Week Fall 2023
Conference ISO meeting
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UPCOMING EVENTS


PDF Week Fall 2023 October 16, 2023 // USA
Conference ISO meeting
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