EA-PDF: archiving email using PDF
Email is one of the most ubiquitous forms of communication in personal and professional contexts. Organizations worldwide rely on email at almost every level of daily operations, but they lack options for effectively preserving and accessing email over long periods of time.
Due to its widespread use and importance as an asynchronous communication medium, many organizations need to preserve and provide access to email messages. Although the transmission of completed emails is necessarily standardized, the wide variety of open and proprietary email file formats and systems creates challenges for long-term preservation
EA-PDF defines a mechanism for offline preservation of email source data together with a reliable static rendition of the email data. Based on existing ISO 19005 standards for archival-quality PDF files (PDF/A-3 and PDF/A-4f), EA-PDF provides institutions, corporations, and individuals with many benefits. The specification may be downloaded from the PDF Association’s website at no charge.
PDF Week Boston 2025 – April 28 – May 2, 2025
The PDF Association is pleased to invite our members to PDF Week Boston 2025.
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The PDF Association announces a new membership type designed for organizations that produce or consume PDF files at-scale.
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