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September 2025 by PDF Association staff

The just-completed PDF Days Europe 2025 featured a diverse program exploring the future of PDF, with a focus on AI, accessibility, authenticity, and user experience. Thank you to all who attended, spoke and worked so hard to make this event a reality!

The event showcased the collaborative nature of the PDF ecosystem, bringing together vendors, implementers, researchers, and users to shape its future.

Key topics included harnessing AI for content creation and management, ensuring document security and authenticity, and improving accessibility and production workflows.

The just-completed PDF Days Europe 2025 featured a diverse program exploring the future of PDF, with a focus on AI, accessibility, authenticity, and user experience. Thank you to all who attended, spoke and worked so hard to make this event a reality!

The event showcased the collaborative nature of the PDF ecosystem, bringing together vendors, implementers, researchers, and users to shape its future.

Key topics included harnessing AI for content creation and management, ensuring document security and authenticity, and improving accessibility and production workflows.

UKAAF joins the PDF Association to help guide development of PDF/UA

December 2019 by PDF Association staff
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UKAAF’s liaison with the PDF Association will help ensure that PDF technology continues to promote and improve easy readability and conversion of documents for visually-impaired users.

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December 2019 by Thomas Zellmann
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Thomas Zellmann discusses the benefits of OCR and of making PDFs fully searchable, especially as input for AI systems.

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November 2019 by Klaas Posselt
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The PDF/UA Technical Working Group released Tagged PDF Best Practice Guide: Syntax – to provide developers and expert users with … Read more

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November 2019 by Thomas Zellmann
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AI applications for business intelligence processing can extract information from unstructured “born digital” documents, but many archives include years (or … Read more

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November 2019 by Duff Johnson
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Apple’s desktop suite, Pages, Keynote and Numbers, now supports creation of tagged (and thus, accessible and reusable) PDF.

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October 2019 by PDF Association staff
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In the late 1990s Karl’s ‘Planet PDF’ created a worldwide PDF community and went on to found successful companies leveraging … Read more

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October 2019 by Duff Johnson
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As of October 7, 2019, websites and mobile applications in the U.S. will be assessed as “public accommodations”, and the … Read more

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October 2019 by PDF Association staff
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These vulnerabilities require an attacker to modify an encrypted PDF file, potentially leading to the exfiltration of the document’s contents … Read more

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October 2019 by Thomas Zellmann
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To survive a great flood Noah brought pairs from every species aboard his ark. But is this approach – gathering … Read more

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September 2019 by Duff Johnson
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Earlier this year we covered the release of the Mueller Report covering the Special Counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in … Read more

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September 2019 by PDF Association staff
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Today the PDF Association publishes a new feature for PDF: a standardized mechanism allowing authors to define and share their … Read more

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