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Developers rarely ask about PDF standards upfront, until an accessibility audit fails or a government contract demands it. By then, the cost of choosing the wrong library has already compounded.

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Has it been a year already? Let’s recap developments in 2025.

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We report on the technical aspects of the PDF files released by the US Department of Justice in connection with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

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Dual Lab is glad to announce a new PDF Accessibility Checker available immediately for tests and download.

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I asked ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and CoPilot about PDF’s future. They agree that PDF isn’t fading – it’s becoming infrastructure.

Expanded OCR Capabilities in C++ Now Available

The latest Adobe PDF Library release from Datalogics builds upon recently introduced OCR enhancements with new tools for page-level text recognition.

Crawford Technologies Industry Summit 2026

Crawford Technologies will co-host its 7th annual Industry Summit, set for April 8–9, 2026 in Orlando, with analyst firm Madison Advisors. As the industry’s only dedicated customer communications management event in 2026, the Summit offers an exclusive forum for industry professionals to explore emerging trends, exchange real-world strategies and connect with peers and technology innovators.

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Chrome’s U-turn on JPEG-XL – thanks (in part) to PDF! | PDF errata makeover | ZUGFeRD 2.4 / Factur-X 1.08 announced | Library of Congress has “many hundreds of thousands of terabytes” of PDFs! | Google Drive PDF viewer improvements | Is that a real

, or an implied paragraph? | Why precise typesetting is so important | Drafts of PDF/A-4 and EPUB/A are publicly available for comment | PDFacademicBot for December 2025

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