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Coming in September: a PDF Triathlon in Berlin!

March 2025 by PDF Association staff

In September 2025 the PDF Association will host three back-to-back PDF events at the SI Hotel in Berlin.

PDF Workshops – September 11-12 – The PDF Association’s CTO will lead two days of day-long workshop sessions.

PDF Days Europe – September 15-16 – We open PDF Days Europe 2025, the worldwide PDF technology event of the year!

PDF Week – September 17-19 – PDF Week is PDF’s technical conference, advancing PDF specifications and ISO standards for PDF.

Please help us design the program for PDF Days Europe by responding to our survey.

When will AI understand document semantics?

March 2025 by PDF Association staff
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When will AI understand document semantics? | Will LLM-based OCR live up to the challenge? | Indicating whether the publisher allows PDF files to be mined by AI | JHOVE … Read more

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February 2025 by PDF Association staff
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PDF bookmarks from Google Chrome? | What does “PDF” mean to you? | Two reasons why everyone needs PDF | … Read more

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January 2025 by PDF Association staff
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Doom in a PDF | PDF Week Boston 2025 | The EAA is coming! | AI and accessibility standards | … Read more

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December 2024 by PDF Association staff
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A close-up look at how PDF does text | What would Patton think? | Word bug blocks PDF/UA validators, Happy … Read more

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November 2024 by PDF Association staff
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New guidance on PDF Portable Collections and on digitizing paper. | US Army website features PDF/UA | PDFism! | Scratch-and-sniff … Read more

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October 2024 by PDF Association staff
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In 2025 Europe will require ebooks to be accessible and include detailed accessibility metadata while Germany will require e-invoicing. | … Read more

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September 2024 by PDF Association staff
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File type for downloadable forms, in 3 letters | Mobile devices are pain-points for forms | But, Android support for … Read more

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August 2024 by PDF Association staff
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Devs must VALIDATE before applying ISO-standardized subset metadata to PDFs! | PDF Week Prague accommodations | OPF patches JHOVE | … Read more

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July 2024 by PDF Association staff
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Wired likes PDF/A, Google and Apple do PDF creation from phone cameras, EA-PDF is already in the wild, the latest … Read more

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June 2024 by PDF Association staff
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What do “first class companies” do? Japanese media covers the PDF Association in Tokyo. Firefox adds experimental alt. text generation … Read more

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May 2024 by PDF Association staff
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Microsoft deepens its investment in Tagged PDF. We talked PDF with NISO. Both Android and iOS improve PDF handling. A … Read more

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