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Hugging Face.AI examines PDF. New PDF support in Android. Google reinvents a 31 year-old PDF feature. FireFox wants you to know that you can edit PDFs in its browser. It’s PDF in the Wild for April, 2024!

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A new ISO extension to PDF 2.0 adds PDF support for the Khronos Group’s glTF 3D format.

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Authoritative answers to common questions about Tagged PDF, WTPDF and PDF/UA.

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Based on WTPDF, ISO 14289-2 serves to assure institutions that the PDF Association’s requirements for creating and validating accessible PDF 2.0 files are now ISO-standardized.

PDF/A & PDF/UA

The latest veraPDF release candidate adds PDF/UA-2 support. LibreOffice creates PDF/A and PDF/UA together. A “white paper” gets PDF wrong, again. Visualizing Warichū. 

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The PDF Association has established a new Liaison Working Group (LWG) to serve as a place for forensics experts and PDF technology industry professionals to develop best practices on forensic examination of PDF files.

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Well-Tagged PDF (WTPDF), a common specification for both reuse and accessibility, is a massive leap forward for PDF technology.

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It’s time for AI integrators to help authors make semantically rich documents… and step up their game on PDF inputs.

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PDF Week Online 2024 week 2 is coming up! Did you know that PDF 2.0 adds ARIA to PDF? How about a PDF bigger than the universe? Are you going to let an AI write your proposal? PDFacademicBot for February 2024.

PDF Week Online 2024 starts Monday, February 5

All PDF Association Full and Liaison Members who have joined Technical and/or Liaison Working Groups are welcome for two weeks of extended-length TWG and LWG discussions to advance PDF!

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