The European Accessibility Act (EAA) makes accessible PDF generation for mass documents an architectural requirement. Manual PDF remediation no longer scales: Organizations need system-integrated, reproducible processes to ensure compliant and consistent output.
A PDF/A-b document can be visually perfect and machine-unreadable at the same time. This is not a bug — it is what the standard was designed to do. Understanding the difference between rendering a glyph and encoding a character is the first step to building archives that AI can actually use.
Most enterprise AI initiatives are failing not because of the model — but because of the document. This whitepaper examines why flat, image-based PDFs render corporate archives invisible to RAG pipelines and LLMs, and makes the operational case for cloud-native OCR, PDF/A-2u standardisation, and zero-trust document architecture as the three non-negotiable preconditions for an AI-ready data lake.
The State Office for Health and Social Affairs Berlin uses axesWord to create accessible documents directly in Microsoft Word and efficiently meet legal accessibility requirements. Broad adoption across departments reduces errors, speeds up document processes, and integrates accessibility into everyday workflows.
Math in PDF files is finally fully accessible, and can be navigated and read by capable assistive technology. This development, aligning creation software, modern PDF standards, compatible viewers and assistive technology, finally closes the accessibility gap between the web and downloadable STEM documents.
callas software today announced the appointment of Natacha De Kegel as Customer Success Manager for North America, effective March 1st, 2026.
The newest iLovePDF update brings practical AI features, clearer admin controls, and performance improvements designed to make work simpler.
A PDF icon doesn’t mean that the link goes to a PDF | Register for PDF Week London | Save the date for ISO Week in South Korea | LLM text extraction paradox | Share tokens instead of documents? | Replace PDF with… Markdown? 😆😂😭 | Epstein PDFs analysis continues | Redacting content versus hiding content, explained | Chrome now supports JPEG-XL | Super Mario 64 in a PDF | Brotli gains media attention | PDFacademicBot for February 2026
Datalogics now makes it easier to create PAdES B-T digital signatures in PDF documents by generating signatures directly through a dedicated PAdES signature class in the SDK.
Now marking its 20th year in operation, the PDF Association evolved from a collaboration of five German companies focused on PDF/A (ISO 19005-1) to a global, vendor-neutral hub for PDF technology standards.
