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PDF/A has become the gold standard for preserving digital documents, ensuring they remain readable and reliable for decades. OctoPDF makes it easy for anyone to validate these files for free and with complete accuracy.

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Browsers leverage PDF in their battle for dominance | Your PDF says a lot about you | Is Big Data finally getting smarter about PDF? Hmm… | For government, accessible PDF is the law | Register-ing JPEG-XL for PDF
| Prank PDFs (can) cause hallucinations | “Spiked” PDF | JAWS misses opportunity to improve accessible PDF support | OpenPDF 3.0.0 supports PDF 2.0 | PDFacademicBot

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pdfAssistant’s new AI-powered Redact PDF capability enables secure, permanent removal of sensitive information for compliance-driven workflows. Leveraging trusted Adobe technology, it ensures precise, unrecoverable redaction while offering intuitive, conversational controls for fast, reliable document sanitization.

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The PDF Association is surveying the PDF industry to fill the gap in reliable market data.

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Understanding how URLs can exist and behave in PDF/A files is critical to preservationists who need to identify, audit, and manage external references.

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KDAN PDF, formerly PDF Reader, has evolved into a performance-driven tool for precise, efficient document workflows.

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JPedal evolves into a full Java PDF toolkit with major PDF Manipulator upgrades, faster processing, and improved stability.

iText Suite 9.3 Release

For the third release of iText’s 25th anniversary year, Apryse brings you iText Suite 9.3. For iText Core, we’ve further enhanced its best-in-class digital signing and validation capabilities, with EU LOTL support. On top of that pdfOCR receives a significant boost in capabilities by supporting AI/ML-based ONNX-compatible OCR models, and pdfOptimizer gets better font subsetting for substantially smaller files.

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