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5 reasons to attend PDF Days in 2025

July 2025 by Duff Johnson

Insight. PDF Days is a great place to learn about new approaches, ask vendors hard questions, and benefit from centuries of collective wisdom.

Networking. PDF Days is a great way to make connections with peers, vendors, customers, regulators, and more.

Inspiration. I’ve been told that attendees value PDF Days for the information they did NOT come to learn, but that nonetheless offered real value.

Learning. PDF Days, together with the PDF Workshop immediately prior, is an ideal opportunity to help new developers, consultants, product managers and marketers deepen their knowledge of PDF’s capabilities and the competitive landscape.

Foresight. PDF Days is an opportunity to hear first-hand about coming advances in PDF technology and discover what’s next for PDF!

Insight. PDF Days is a great place to learn about new approaches, ask vendors hard questions, and benefit from centuries of collective wisdom.

Networking. PDF Days is a great way to make connections with peers, vendors, customers, regulators, and more.

Inspiration. I’ve been told that attendees value PDF Days for the information they did NOT come to learn, but that nonetheless offered real value.

Learning. PDF Days, together with the PDF Workshop immediately prior, is an ideal opportunity to help new developers, consultants, product managers and marketers deepen their knowledge of PDF’s capabilities and the competitive landscape.

Foresight. PDF Days is an opportunity to hear first-hand about coming advances in PDF technology and discover what’s next for PDF!

Visibility into the ISO pipeline for PDF standards

March 2020 by Duff Johnson
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A new resource collating all ISO groups and currently active work items related to PDF has been developed. Based on public information, this summary is invaluable for all PDF developers … Read more

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March 2020 by Dietrich von Seggern (callas software GmbH)
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More and more, magazines are available on tablets or other mobile platforms. The subscriber uses the respective app to view … Read more

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March 2020 by Peter Wyatt
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Now available from ISO: the Draft International Standard (DIS) version of the latest ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0) standard is ready … Read more

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March 2020 by Peter Wyatt
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Ailing economies around the world need every advantage in these difficult times. On the other side of today’s crisis a … Read more

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March 2020 by PDF Association staff
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The Signal, a Library of Congress blog, has a new post about archiving with PDF by the Library of Congress’ … Read more

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February 2020 by Prof. Chris Prom
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Archives, libraries, and other memory institutions have experimented with PDF for archiving email, but have not widely implemented them as … Read more

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February 2020 by Duff Johnson
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When people talk to me about PDF technology they are generally pretty happy about it. End users feel that they … Read more

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January 2020 by Duff Johnson
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“I’m sorry, Derek, but, now that Kelsey has learned how to convert JPEGs into PDFs, we can’t justify keeping you … Read more

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December 2019 by Thomas Zellmann
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Thomas Zellmann discusses the benefits of OCR and of making PDFs fully searchable, especially as input for AI systems.

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November 2019 by Klaas Posselt
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The PDF/UA Technical Working Group released Tagged PDF Best Practice Guide: Syntax – to provide developers and expert users with … Read more

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November 2019 by Thomas Zellmann
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AI applications for business intelligence processing can extract information from unstructured “born digital” documents, but many archives include years (or … Read more

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