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Improving the accessibility and usability of a PDF has always required either significant in-house expertise or an expensive outside service. Grackle PDF changes that.

Diagram showing a PDF that declares PDF/A-2u conformance but, after save operations (compress/merge/split/convert), loses its structure tree so metadata remains while accessibility info is gone — conformance depends on the last tool that wrote it.

Every save rewrites a PDF. What usually survives an ordinary compress or merge is the XMP declaration, not the structure it describes: the file still claims PDF/A conformance it no longer has.

I love API – Automate PDF form detection. Turquoise background showing two forms in the front

iLoveAPI’s new Detect Forms tool automatically finds static form elements in PDFs and rebuilds them as standard, fillable fields, all in a single API call.

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Continual Engine’s SmartHTML transforms legacy PDFs into responsive, accessible HTML at scale, helping educational institutions and governments modernize content without rebuilding existing libraries.

UPDF for lawyer

UPF’s new page for attorneys presents a connected workflow for reviewing evidence, comparing contract revisions, protecting privileged information, and preparing final legal documents.

New from Datalogics: Brotli Compression & Web2PDF

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 and AI How can AI help PDF

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.

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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.

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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.

C2PA Content credentials and PDF

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.

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