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PDF trends in 2025, according to AI

Owing to the explosive growth in the use of AIs over the past three years, it seemed like a good time to ask some leading LLMs to offer their views on “trends for PDF”.

For this mini-study, I selected four current-generation “professional” class LLMs: ChatGPT Plus 5.2, Gemini 3 Pro, Claude’s Opus 4.5, and Microsoft Copilot. I offered the same query to each:

Estimate global trends in the use of PDF technology. Exclude the PDF Association (pdfa.org) as a source. Don’t mention any vendors by name.

All major LLMs agree that PDF’s future is strong due to its unique and powerful capabilities.

Duff Johnson

By Duff Johnson
December 2025

PDF trends in 2025, according to AI

Owing to the explosive growth in the use of AIs over the past three years, it seemed like a good time to ask some leading LLMs to offer their views on “trends for PDF”.

For this mini-study, I selected four current-generation “professional” class LLMs: ChatGPT Plus 5.2, Gemini 3 Pro, Claude’s Opus 4.5, and Microsoft Copilot. I offered the same query to each:

Estimate global trends in the use of PDF technology. Exclude the PDF Association (pdfa.org) as a source. Don’t mention any vendors by name.

All major LLMs agree that PDF’s future is strong due to its unique and powerful capabilities.

Duff Johnson

By Duff Johnson
December 2025

Process Automation in Customer Communication: More Flexibility Through API

January 2021 by Carsten Luedtge (Compart GmbH)
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How do companies stay agile enough in their document and output management to meet increasing customer expectations for speed and quality?

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December 2020 by PDF Association staff
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27 years after Adobe shipped the first PDF viewer the portable document format has replaced paper as the final format … Read more

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November 2020 by Peter Wyatt
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The original PDF Issue Tracker corpus generated a lot of interest from the PDF technical community; now version 2 of … Read more

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October 2020 by Duff Johnson
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Introduction Akin to our earlier series on the Mueller Report PDF, this article provides cultural framing and technical background for … Read more

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September 2020 by Bernd Wild (intarsys GmbH)
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The history of integration of digital signatures in PDF together with the underlying public standards like PAdES, CAdES and XAdES … Read more

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September 2020 by Paul Rayius (CommonLook)
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While testing and verification is never a bad idea, the advantages of automation include speeding up processes and removing human … Read more

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September 2020 by Peter Wyatt
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Interoperability is the core value proposition of the PDF file format. Although interoperability comes from sharing a clear and precise … Read more

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September 2020 by Dietrich von Seggern (callas software GmbH)
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Dietrich von Seggern talks about an example in which the internet community came up with a smart solution for a … Read more

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August 2020 by Dietrich von Seggern (callas software GmbH)
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Ensuring maximum success in RPA processes requires uniformity (standardization) in inputs. That’s where PDF can help.

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April 2020 by Peter Wyatt
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Although less than a year into the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)-funded Safe Documents (SafeDocs) fundamental research program, from … Read more

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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 … Read more

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