If you’re generating or converting PDFs at scale, the latest Adobe PDF Library (APDFL) release adds two capabilities worth knowing about: support for the PDF Association’s new Brotli compression extension, and tagged PDF output from Web2PDF conversions.
PDF is not inherently a problem for AI. The structure of a PDF needs to correspond to the content and organization presented to the user.
With the new axesWord Beta, you can now check the accessibility of your Word documents directly in axesWord. The new beta checker identifies potential issues in headings, metadata, alternative text, tables, and forms.
Higher education institutions create and share countless PDFs, from course materials and syllabi to research papers, forms, and handbooks. Learn how institutions can create accessible PDFs through proper tagging and testing.
ChatGPT now adds Content Credentials to generated PDFs, but a structural error can make those files incompatible with PDF/X. Dietrich von Seggern how pdfToolbox can help to create a production-ready copy.
UPDF offers new resources for real-estate how agents, brokers, and property teams so they can review disclosures, compare offers, digitize inspections, and prepare secure closing documents.
The new PDF to PostScript API Tool gives print, prepress, and publishing teams a configurable way to generate production-ready PostScript from PDF and enables roundtrip conversion to help resolve prepress compatibility issues.
The PDF Association has published two new PDF/UA-1 Technical Notes on the Use of ActualText on Figure structure elements and Reference structure elements containing links.
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.
JPedal now validates PDF structure against the Arlington PDF Model, helping identify errors that may not be visible when a PDF is rendered.
