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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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Microform helps British Online Archives with PDF Compressor

Microform has completed a flagship project with the help of the PDF Compressor from Foxit Software: the website for the British Online Archive (BOA). BOA is home to nearly 4 million data sets from private and public archives which librarians, …



Case study and white paper archives on pdfa.org

The PDF Association’s case study and white paper archives are filled with stories and use cases to help users understand and implement PDF technologies.

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Digital publication of regulations and laws in Brandenburg (Germany)

Already in 2009, the German state Brandenburg started to publish all laws digitally and uses – no surprise – PDF for that. It still is (at least) a nationwide pioneer. In this blog, I want to explain the requirements which …



PDF Days Europe 2020 – sign up early to attend for less!

We’re busy preparing for PDF Days Europe 2020 coming next April, but it’s already time to reward those who plan ahead! Save 150.-€ now at the early bird price of only €229 plus VAT. This offer is only valid until December …

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New release of iText DITO v. 1.2

We are excited to announce the general availability of iText DITO v. 1.2. This latest release of iText’s template engine contains several new features and optimizations of existing capabilities.



iText 7.1.9 Release – Now with better text extraction, SVG support and XFA improvements!

We’re pleased to announce iText 7.1.9, our latest (and last of 2019!) quarterly release. This release includes further documentation and SVG improvements, as well as updated versions of the pdfHTML, pdfXFA and pdf2Data add-ons.



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

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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LTS Release 5.9 – Review, outlook and a new announcement

What is an LTS release? What has changed? What has the PDF Tools team been working on all year?



OCR for PDFs – old news?

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



Able2Extract Professional 15: New Customizable Interface, Language Support and Batch PDF Creator

The latest release of Able2Extract Professional aims to deliver the ultimate PDF experience to users with the new revamped user interface, multi-language OCR support, Batch PDF creation, and various other improvements to existing features.