Melina Tusch – PDF Association

September 29, 2026September 28, 2026 by Melina Tusch

First, video games. Then AI. Now Linux in PDF? | University of Illinois Library wins grant to develop EA-PDF implementations | Update to European Accessibility Act rules in the EN 301 549 | WCAG Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) 2.0 | PDF Association comments on proposed SEC reporting rules | World Digital Preservation Day – 5 Nov 2026 | E-invoicing in France | Analyzing PDFs for AI prompt injections | More sponsored ISO standards | Google glitches the Matrix | Enjoy cartoons about PDF | PDFacademicBot for September 2026

September 28, 2026 by Melina Tusch

Customer feedback and satisfaction survey visualization: a clipboard showing three respondents—green smiling face with five stars, yellow neutral face with three stars, and red frowning face with one star—surrounded by pie and bar charts, speech bubbles, and user icons indicating analysis.

Take part in our Member Survey and tell us how you value your PDF Association membership benefits.

September 25, 2026September 25, 2026 by Melina Tusch

A new opportunity to showcase yourself, your areas of expertise, and your availability.

September 24, 2026 by Melina Tusch

$Workflow showing LaTeX source files (Main.tex, chapter1.tex, chapter2.tex, references.bib, figures/) converted into an accessible mathematical PDF (PDF 2.0) displaying formulas and an Accessible seal, then exported with semantic tags to speech/audio and Braille devices.$

An example of how modern LaTeX provides a viable roadmap for STEM authors to create accessible PDFs, even for very large documents.

September 27, 2026September 8, 2026 by Melina Tusch

Illustration showing "PDF → AI" above a labeled PDF document on the left, a parsed content layout in the center, and a smiling robot on the right holding a tablet marked "AI," conveying converting PDFs into AI-readable data.

PDF isn’t inherently a problem for AI – the real challenge is how documents are ingested. Boris Doubrov explains why structure, metadata, OCR, and context matter for AI-ready PDFs.

September 30, 2026August 28, 2026 by Melina Tusch

Based on feedback received, we are replacing the previous email listserv with GitHub Discussions, which allows usage by email while providing integration with the PDF Association’s expanding resources and assets in GitHub.