Microform has completed a flagship project with the help of the PDF Compressor from Foxit Software: the website for the British Online Archive (BOA). BOA is home to nearly 4 million data sets from private and public archives which librarians, professors, students and researchers of the humanities and can use to lean about over 1,000 … Read more
Microform hat mithilfe des PDF Compressors von Foxit Software ein Leuchtturmprojekt umgesetzt: die Website des British Online Archives (BOA). Diese beherbergt mehr als vier Millionen Datensätze aus privaten und öffentlichen Archiven, anhand derer sich Bibliothekare, Professoren, Studenten und Forscher aus dem Bereich der Geisteswissenschaften über 1.000 Jahre Weltgeschichte informieren können. Viele Dokumente davon hat Microform … Read more
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
