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New large-scale PDF corpus now publicly available

This new corpus – nearly 8 million PDFs totaling about 8 TB – was gathered from across the web in July/August of 2021.

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UKAAF joins the PDF Association to help guide development of PDF/UA

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.

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PDF Days Europe 2020 – April 27-29 in Berlin

Event description Agenda Book now! Hotel recommendations PDF Days Europe 2020, the PDF industry’s premiere event, will take place in Berlin on 27 and 28 April. All dimensions of PDF From scanned pages to smart forms 3D models, ISO-standardized PDF …

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Archiving email into PDF containers: A Mellon Foundation project

What are the essential characteristics and optimal functional requirements of email messages and necessary related information in a PDF technology-based archive? This project sets out to answer that question.



Deriving HTML from PDF: an algorithm

For the two most common web formats – HTML and PDF – the relationship hasn’t been easy. Whenever PDF is used on a website it’s usually in the form of a download link. Rarely, the end user sees some sort …

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Creating accessible PDF documents – a practical manual for everyday use in German language

Accessible PDF documents are getting much more imported these days, not only forced by legal regulations. The PDF Association is actively engaged on developing standards in this area, PDF/UA-1 was this first step, PDF/UA-2 is in development. Additionally  helpful material, …



PDF Products and Services 2019 is now available

As part of the 2019 Electronic Document Conference, the PDF Association has published an industry showcase entitled “PDF Products & Services 2019” featuring 23 PDF Association members. 3D PDF Consortium Adobe Antenna House Artifex axaio software callas software CommonLook Computing …

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DocEng 2019 – PDF Association Tutorial

PDF is the most common file format on the Web after HTML, and everyone in the Document Engineering community without exception has to deal with the format in one way or another. Just about everyone is familiar with PDF being …



Premier événement de la PDF Association en France avec le PDF Day à Toulouse le 4 avril 2019

In cooperation with our member ORPALIS the PDF Association is organizing the first PDF Day France. As all lectures will be held in French, you will find more information – also in French – here.



Deutschsprachige Inhalte auf pdfa.org

Liebe deutschsprachige Besucher unserer Webseite! Gerade im technischen Umfeld kommt heute kaum noch eine Webseite ohne englischsprachige Begriffe und Inhalte aus. Auf sehr vielen Webseiten verschwinden deutschsprachige Inhalte völlig. Nicht so auf pdfa.org! Während die eigentliche Navigation über die beiden …



Save-The-Date: PDF Day France, Toulouse, April 4, 2019

PDF Day France will be the first French-speaking event of the PDF Association. The event takes place in Toulouse, the home of Airbus. We are happy to mention that Airbus will join us to present a case study around its …