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The PDF Association’s case study and white paper archives are filled with stories and use cases to help users understand and implement PDF technologies.

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UKAAF’s liaison with the PDF Association will help ensure that PDF technology continues to promote and improve easy readability and conversion of documents for visually-impaired users.

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The PDF/UA Technical Working Group released Tagged PDF Best Practice Guide: Syntax – to provide developers and expert users with formal advice and best practices for implementing tagged PDF. The guide is also useful to those generating tagged PDF to create accessible documents.

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AI applications for business intelligence processing can extract information from unstructured “born digital” documents, but many archives include years (or decades) of low quality PDF files and older scanned documents that contain important business information.

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Apple’s desktop suite, Pages, Keynote and Numbers, now supports creation of tagged (and thus, accessible and reusable) PDF.

In the late 1990s Karl’s ‘Planet PDF’ created a worldwide PDF community and went on to found successful companies leveraging PDF technology. A warm and generous personality, Karl inspired and encouraged thousands through his energy, talents and vision, and was much loved by all who knew him.

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As of October 7, 2019, websites and mobile applications in the U.S. will be assessed as “public accommodations”, and the Americans with Disabilities Act will apply.

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These vulnerabilities require an attacker to modify an encrypted PDF file, potentially leading to the exfiltration of the document’s contents to an external server. This class of problem is not specific to PDF per se, but is applicable to most formats that support encryption.

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To survive a great flood Noah brought pairs from every species aboard his ark. But is this approach – gathering the full diversity of document formats – genuinely suitable for archiving?

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Earlier this year we covered the release of the Mueller Report covering the Special Counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US election. We highlighted how, in the digital age, the choices made in releasing that document made it rather a sad addition to the transcript of history. There are, of course, many other … Read more

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