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Why Organizations Shouldn’t Miss PDF Days Europe 2025

August 2025 by PDF Association staff

Every enterprise relies on PDF. From contracts and financial reports to regulatory submissions and customer communications, PDFs underpin critical business processes. Yet many organizations only scratch the surface of what this technology can do.

At PDF Days Europe 2025, executives and IT leaders will gain direct insight into how better use of PDF can reduce compliance risks, cut costs and unlock new value from information assets through automation, AI integration and reusable content.

This event isn’t just about standards — it’s about leveraging technical expertise to serve enterprise strategy. Attendees connect directly with the experts who build the technology, gaining practical, future-ready approaches to document management.

For organizations that depend on trust, efficiency, and long-term information integrity, PDF Days Europe is a strategic investment.

Every enterprise relies on PDF. From contracts and financial reports to regulatory submissions and customer communications, PDFs underpin critical business processes. Yet many organizations only scratch the surface of what this technology can do.

At PDF Days Europe 2025, executives and IT leaders will gain direct insight into how better use of PDF can reduce compliance risks, cut costs and unlock new value from information assets through automation, AI integration and reusable content.

This event isn’t just about standards — it’s about leveraging technical expertise to serve enterprise strategy. Attendees connect directly with the experts who build the technology, gaining practical, future-ready approaches to document management.

For organizations that depend on trust, efficiency, and long-term information integrity, PDF Days Europe is a strategic investment.

New large-scale PDF corpus now publicly available

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 July/August of 2021.

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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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March 2023 by Patrick Gallot
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The 3D and RichMedia Technical Working Groups will be combining for an in-person session during PDF Week 2023 Paris to … Read more

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March 2023 by Matthias Valvekens
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The Digital Signature Technical Working Group chair lays out the work to be discussed at PDF Week Paris 2023.

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February 2023 by Paul Rayius (Allyant)
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The PDF/UA Processor LWG will continue the work of developing a processor and AT specification to help drive better accessible … Read more

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