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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

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The TWAIN Working Group (TWG) announced its partnership with the PDF Association.

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With a month remaining before the doors open for the PDF Accessibility Days in Copenhagen on November 12-13, 2015 , … Read more

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A few weeks ahead of the PDF Accessibility Days 2015 in Copenhagen, Olaf Drümmer interviewed Ted Page, who will be … Read more

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Taken together, PDF’s features describe a format of such flexibility and power that it will define the essential “electronic document” … Read more

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Most browsers now support some basic PDF features natively. What’s next for PDF on the web?

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Platform technologies provide the infrastructure for the applications end users actually use, whether some kind of cloud or simply leveraging … Read more

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August 2015 by PDF Association staff
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PDF Technical Conference 2015: With over 40 presentations and podium discussions, conference attendees will benefit from intensive technical education on … Read more

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July 2015 by PDF Association staff
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This article highlights three areas in which PDF can help developers offer powerful new options to their product and project … Read more

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You missed the PDF Days Europe 2015? Never mind! Overview of the video recordings of the PDF Days Europe 2015

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How search engine and other application developers can enhance their PDF-related functionality by fully supporting ISO 32000, the ISO specification … Read more

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