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Recordings from PDF Days Europe 2025 are now available

October 2025 by PDF Association staff

PDF Days Europe 2025 was a tremendous success, bringing together the global PDF community to explore AI, accessibility, authenticity, metadata, security, and the evolving user experience in ISO-standardized PDF.

The event showcased what makes the PDF ecosystem unique: a standards-driven, industry-wide collaboration where vendors, implementers, researchers, and users shape the future together.

The video recordings of all 23 presentations are now available – access them via the event agenda, presentation archive, or YouTube playlist to revisit every highlight, discussion, and practical takeaway from this inspiring event!

PDF Days Europe 2025 was a tremendous success, bringing together the global PDF community to explore AI, accessibility, authenticity, metadata, security, and the evolving user experience in ISO-standardized PDF.

The event showcased what makes the PDF ecosystem unique: a standards-driven, industry-wide collaboration where vendors, implementers, researchers, and users shape the future together.

The video recordings of all 23 presentations are now available – access them via the event agenda, presentation archive, or YouTube playlist to revisit every highlight, discussion, and practical takeaway from this inspiring event!

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May 2023 by Peter Wyatt
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This new corpus – nearly 8 million PDFs totaling about 8 TB – was gathered from across the web in … Read more

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May 2023 by Peter Wyatt
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A new PDF Association service will provide targeted test-cases to highlight interoperability issues resolved in the latest PDF specification.

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April 2023 by Tony McKinley
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Author and longtime PDF evangelist Tony McKinley’s latest book, “PDF Expert”, shares his experience working directly with the world’s most … Read more

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March 2023 by John Brinkman
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The May meeting of the PDF Forms TWG will begin work on a draft specification for declarative forms in PDF.

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March 2023 by Roman Toda
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The Deriving HTML from PDF TWG’s specification is an important part of their program of work as it supports one … Read more

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March 2023 by Matthew Hardy
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The goal of the Well-Tagged PDF (WTPDF) specification is to ensure high-quality documents that are suitable for content reuse, extraction, … Read more

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March 2023 by Markus Erle
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The PDF Accessibility Liaison Working Group (LWG) is taking aim at providing a full set of techniques to demonstrate correct … Read more

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March 2023 by Dietrich von Seggern (callas software GmbH)
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PDF/A – the ISO standard for long-term archiving – now has four sub-standards. This raises an obvious question: which one … Read more

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