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.
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?
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
Today the PDF Association publishes a new feature for PDF: a standardized mechanism allowing authors to define and share their own document profiles leveraging PDF technology.
The TWAIN Working Group, a liaison member of the PDF Association, has just announced the release of TWAIN Direct, their next-generation open source image-acquisition technology. As the TWAIN Direct website points out, historically, application developers’ choice of image capture API was primarily influenced by the hardware OEM’s available APIs, which presented challenges as most APIs … Read more
The comprehensive PDF tool significantly improves document productivity in the digital workplace. ABBYY, a global leader in Digital IQ technologies and solutions, today announced the release of ABBYY FineReader 15, an enhanced PDF application for Windows that empowers users to manage any kind of document in the digital workplace. With billions of scanned and digitally … Read more
SQL Server’s Reporting Services will soon support the ISO standard for accessible PDF.
In June 2019, the Electronic Document Conference was held. All 44 presentations were video-recorded and are available for those who could not attend in person.
Users printing to PDF are throwing away information that could be reused by downstream applications. Find out how “Deriving HTML from PDF” addresses this issue by leveraging tagged PDF.
After an impressive effort the Mueller Report is now available as a free EPUB file. What might have been in PDF?
