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New large-scale PDF corpus now publicly available

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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3 ways developers can impress the boss with PDF

This article highlights three areas in which PDF can help developers offer powerful new options to their product and project managers.



Is JBIG2 soon banned?

JBIG2 is a compression algorithm for bitonal images and has been developed to replace the widely used CCITT G4 algorithm because it can reach better compression ratios. However, the algorithm has received a bad reputation which has led some security …



Overview of the video recordings of the PDF Days Europe 2015

You missed the PDF Days Europe 2015? Never mind! Overview of the video recordings of the PDF Days Europe 2015



Datalogics PDF Alchemist, a Developer Toolkit for Converting PDF to HTML, Now Available

Datalogics, the premier source for Adobe PDF and eBook technologies, announced the release of Datalogics PDF Alchemist, a new SDK for converting PDF documents to HTML.

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MadeToPrint, MadeToTag and MadeForLayers compatible with Adobe InDesign CC 2015

axaio software, developer of solutions for PDF creation, printing and content correction workflows for the publishing and printing markets, announces the compatibility of MadeToPrint, MadeToTag and MadeForLayers with with Adobe’s latest Creative Cloud 2015.



veraPDF consortium issues first public software release

Release 0.2 of veraPDF does not yet perform PDF/A validation, but as a proof-of-concept it demonstrates the approach selected for project.



What is Google parsing?

How search engine and other application developers can enhance their PDF-related functionality by fully supporting ISO 32000, the ISO specification for PDF.



Sophos: Google easily fooled by PDF link-farms

Link-farming with PDF (still) fools Google. What are they parsing, and what are they doing with what they get?



Samsung may soon support PDF annotation features

Will Android heavyweight Samsung introduce PDF annotation support?



Image detection in scanned images

Detecting pictures in scanned document pages has many advantages such as better compression rates and the possibility to extract them individually.