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Microform hat mithilfe des PDF Compressors von Foxit Software ein Leuchtturmprojekt umgesetzt: die Website des British Online Archives (BOA). Diese beherbergt mehr als vier Millionen Datensätze aus privaten und öffentlichen Archiven, anhand derer sich Bibliothekare, Professoren, Studenten und Forscher aus dem Bereich der Geisteswissenschaften über 1.000 Jahre Weltgeschichte informieren können. Viele Dokumente davon hat Microform … Read more

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The PDF Association’s case study and white paper archives are filled with stories and use cases to help users understand and implement PDF technologies.

Already in 2009, the German state Brandenburg started to publish all laws digitally and uses – no surprise – PDF for that. It still is (at least) a nationwide pioneer. In this blog, I want to explain the requirements which are sometimes completely different from for e.g. publishing magazine articles online but also sometimes surprisingly close even to print publishing.

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We’re busy preparing for PDF Days Europe 2020 coming next April, but it’s already time to reward those who plan ahead! Save 150.-€ now at the early bird price of only €229 plus VAT. This offer is only valid until December 31, 2019! Extented until January, 6th! Once again, PDF Days Europe will offer education, expertise … Read more

We’re pleased to announce iText 7.1.9, our latest (and last of 2019!) quarterly release. This release includes further documentation and SVG improvements, as well as updated versions of the pdfHTML, pdfXFA and pdf2Data add-ons.

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UKAAF’s liaison with the PDF Association will help ensure that PDF technology continues to promote and improve easy readability and conversion of documents for visually-impaired users.

What is an LTS release? What has changed? What has the PDF Tools team been working on all year?

Thomas Zellmann discusses the benefits of OCR and of making PDFs fully searchable, especially as input for AI systems.

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