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Screenshot of tagged PDF highlighting the P tag and its content.

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.

Screenshot of a redacted portion of the Mueller report.

After an impressive effort the Mueller Report is now available as a free EPUB file. What might have been in PDF?

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The Open Preservation Foundation, a PDF Association liaison member, has announced the 1.14 release of the open source, industry-supported PDF/A validator, part of OPF’s reference toolset. The latest release includes bug fixes, feature requests and performance enhancements, including the latest resolutions from the PDF Association’s PDF Validation Technical Working Group. Download veraPDF 1.14, read the release notes., and review the user … Read more

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What are the essential characteristics and optimal functional requirements of email messages and necessary related information in a PDF technology-based archive? This project sets out to answer that question.

DNA strand

For the two most common web formats – HTML and PDF – the relationship hasn’t been easy. Whenever PDF is used on a website it’s usually in the form of a download link. Rarely, the end user sees some sort of abstract or short description before leaving the website for some sort of PDF viewer. For … Read more

Vertical streams of code.

The SafeDocs research is intended to result in novel parser methodologies to ensure security in digital content.

Section 508 and the US Capitol building.

The US Access Board who sets policy for US federal agencies and contractor’s deliverables has agreed to require PDF/UA.

Aircraft and the moon.

We interviewed Kenny Swope about his keynote session at the Electronic Document Conference in Seattle, and asked him some questions about Boeing’s digital transformation.

Cover of PDF Products and Services 2019

As part of the 2019 Electronic Document Conference, the PDF Association has published an industry showcase entitled “PDF Products & Services 2019” featuring 23 PDF Association members. 3D PDF Consortium Adobe Antenna House Artifex axaio software callas software CommonLook Computing System Innovations Datalogics Eclipse Gear.IT Intarsys iText Nitro PDFTables PDF Tools PDFTron Qoppa SEAL Systems … Read more

Redacted document with the word "document" highlighted.

How do you redact content in HTML? The format doesn’t really include that concept. In both principle and practice, committing to a rendering is definitive; final, portable and generic; it’s what the use case demands. Redaction demands PDF.

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