Updates from the meeting place of the PDF industry.
Articles and industry news
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Announcing the Monday keynote speaker for PDF Days Europe 2025, the new poster sessions and Peter Wyatt’s PDF Workshop!
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Submit a Technical Poster to showcase your ideas at PDF Days Europe 2025!
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Accessibility | veraPDF version 1.28.1 | Chrome PDF features updates | Transparency blending | Screen readers and special characters | MathML | Fonts | JPEG-XL | PDFacademicBot
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To give you – our members – more visibility, the main landing-page of pdfa.org now includes our members’ logos, showcasing members’ support for best practices, industry specifications and standards development.
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Members gather for PDF Week Boston 2025 in Concord, Massachusetts! Besides sightseeing and socializing there is also some work getting done!
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What does it take to build the organizational skills and resources necessary to succeed in ensuring PDF documents are accessible?
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The PDF Accessibility LWG’s 2025-Q2 release focuses on headings, with 9 new techniques and 8 new failure examples.
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AI’s Pirated-Books Problem | Correcting US financial regulations referencing PDF | New crawl limit improves CC’s capture of PDF | W3C note on “Accessibility of machine learning and generative AI” | What is so plain about plain text? | Surveying PDF accessibility remediators | Courts’ rules lack detail | PDFacademicBot for April 2025
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Brotli compression is coming soon to PDF 2.0, enabling smaller file sizes. Sample PDF files are available to kickstart development!
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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 PDF parsing improvements | Progress on HDR standards | PDFacademicBot for March, 2025.
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Free XMP Extension Schema templates that support compliance with ISO standards and specifications utilizing XMP.
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Based on PDF/A, the EA-PDF specification defines a specification for a vendor- and platform- neutral format for the long-term preservation of email.
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Commercial and free PDF creation, viewing or validation software that exposes the relationship between a PDF’s page content and its tags tree.
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These Techniques provide atomic example files and test procedures in a vendor-neutral manner, allowing PDF files to be precisely tested while ensuring software developers retain maximum flexibility and potential for innovation.
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PDF cheat sheets are quick-reference tools to help developers work more efficiently while ensuring that their knowledge of PDF is technically correct.
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Private data is everywhere is in almost every broadly-adopted file format. This Application Note answers questions about private data in PDF files.
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This document broadens the concept of XMP specified in ISO 16684-1 so that XMP can be used to describe a semantic unit (SU).
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This document defines how the XMP data model can be serialized to JSON-LD.
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This part of ISO 16684 specifies the use of RELAX NG to describe serialized XMP metadata.
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This document defines two essential components of XMP metadata – data model and serialization.
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UPDF 2.0 has been launched globally, setting a new standard for AI-powered PDF editing. With the introduction of advanced artificial intelligence features, the new version significantly enhances the PDF editing experience.
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pdfRest offers developers a way to convert scanned PDFs into fully searchable documents, unlocking content that was previously trapped in image-based files with its enhanced OCR PDF API tool.
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UPDF announces the release of UPDF 2.0 on May 29, 2025, introducing a redesigned interface and 18 innovative features that set new standards for speed, simplicity, and AI-powered productivity in PDF management. This major update highlights UPDF’s commitment to delivering user-friendly document solutions for both individuals and businesses.
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Datalogics’ Adobe PDF Library now supports digital signatures, offering users a secure and flexible way to sign PDF documents programmatically.
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The latest BuildVu release delivers updates that enhance accessibility, improve UI consistency, and fix several edge-case issues in PDF to HTML conversion. These improvements ensure more accurate output, better theming, and a smoother viewing experience across devices.
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callas software has published a comprehensive white paper to assist in navigating the discussions around standards, preflight checks, corrections, reports, and much more. It also describes how to use pdfToolbox for preflighting incoming PDF files and other PDF production preparation tasks.
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kwsoft® has published the new release 6.16 of its CCM solution Serie M/. See some highlights of Release 6.16 at a glance.
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JLB INFORMATIQUE, a French pioneer in information management software, begins a new chapter as Élodie Tellier takes over as owner and CEO, bringing a focus on innovation, AI, and open standards such as PDF.
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Adobe PDF Print Engine 7.0 was announced at the 2025 FESPA conference in Berlin and will be available in August 2025! Datalogics is proud to be named the exclusive reseller of Adobe PDF Print Engine.
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Crawford Technologies announced the availability of AccessibilityNow® Gateway Enterprise, a solution designed to meet an enterprise’s large-scale accessibility requirements enabling corporations and government entities to convert transactional documents into accessible customer-friendly and mobile-ready formats in milliseconds.
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PDFix releases a smart system to automate complex PDF accessibility workflows. The new Pipeline framework simplifies document processing with customizable, JSON-based automation built for seamless integration and compliance with PDF/UA standards.
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pdfRest introduces Redact PDF, a new API tool that enables developers to permanently and reliably remove sensitive text from PDF files. This tool is designed to meet the growing demands for secure document management.
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The latest release of the Adobe PDF Library SDK from Datalogics includes a host of new features and critical updates to enhance performance, security, and developer flexibility.
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Crawford Technologies reports on the success of its sixth annual Industry Summit held April 3-4 in Chicago. The presentations offered valuable insights into groundbreaking solutions for transforming the customer experience.
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UPDF reaches two significant milestones with a major upgrade to GPT-4.1 in UPDF AI and receiving the Geekflare Editor’s Choice Award.
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File-Linker – The Plug-in automatically creates hyperlinks to other files on the basis of samples. These can be either file open or web links. Text-Linker – The function is responsible for the automatic creation of internal hyperlinks. It can be used to interactivate a table of contents, an index, footnotes or cross-references. Auto-Bookmarks – This register is an essential element for navigation within a large document. With the help of the new function, bookmarks can be generated automatically in any number based on typographical characteristics. Footnote-Linker – The Plug-in recognises the small superscript digit and creates hyperlink to the footnote in both direction.
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PDF4NET is a .NET library for generating and importing PDF documents on the fly from any .NET application. The library does not rely on any Adobe products for creating and importing PDF files. It hides the complex structure of PDF files behind a simple object model that allows creation of complex PDF files or import of existing PDF files with a few lines of code. It supports a wide set of features, ranging from simple PDF creation to form filling, content redaction, complex color conversions or digital signatures.
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PDFViewer — enable seamless PDF viewing everywhere PDFV … Read more
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PDF Generator API allows you easily generate PDF docume … Read more
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Document Processing + Output Management The DocBridge® … Read more
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DocBridge® Communication Suite provides you with a streamlined, lean and powerful solution to manage your high volume of customer communication efficiently and traceably. Thanks to a modern and intuitive user interface for document design and the management of all communication processes, you will always reach your customers with high-quality documents – on every physical and digital channel, according to your customers’ preferences. By using open standards and the cloud-native approach, the solution can be seamlessly integrated into existing and future systems, both in the cloud and on-premise. It adapts cost-efficiently and flexibly to your business requirements and helps you to optimize your workflows and increase productivity.
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The Windows server application can be used to convert existing PDF automatically in standard compliant PDF/UA. The tool can be used as part of any workflow to process a high volume of documents without any user intervention or as part of a web service for on demand creation.
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Users can generate multiple-choice, true-or-false, or o … Read more
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Users can summarize PDFs and other file formats in seco … Read more
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For those looking to translate PDF documents online for … Read more
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Check a PDF for accessibility online Is your PDF access … Read more
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Automatically check PDFs for accessibility You want you … Read more
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axesSlide creates legally compliant, accessible PDF doc … Read more
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What does this application do? axesWord creates complia … Read more
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axesPDF is a powerful tool for validating and fixing th … Read more
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Why PAC? PAC is the globally used, free PDF accessibili … Read more
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PDF4WCAG is a web-based service implementing PDF validation against various requirements for PDF accessibility including WCAG, PDF/UA-1, PDF/UA-2 and Well-Tagged PDF. It is powered by the veraPDF validation architecture and is identical to veraPDF in Machine verifiable checks of PDF/UA-1, PDF/UA-2 and Well-Tagged PDF profiles. REST API is available for integration and is free for non-commercial use.
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This AI tool allows users to interact with PDF document … Read more
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GrackleGO is at the cutting edge of digital accessibility, offering a groundbreaking, browser-based platform for comprehensive PDF accessibility testing. Tailored to meet the stringent requirements of ISO 14289-1 (PDF/UA), GrackleGO is the solution for ensuring that your PDF documents are accessible to everyone, including those with disabilities. This browser-based tool stands out for its flexibility, ease of use, and compatibility, distinguishing it from traditional desktop applications limited by operating system constraints.
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Grackle PDF is the next generation of accessibility software, offering an exceptional tool for remediators grappling with complex accessibility challenges. It transforms the process of achieving full accessibility, ensuring compliance with PDF/UA, WCAG, and Section 508 standards. Initiate your journey with a tagged PDF, effortlessly uncover accessibility issues, and rectify the bulk of them in an instant with just a few intuitive clicks.
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A unique opportunity for library and application developers, computer scientists and technology researchers to engage in depth with the developer of the Arlington PDF Model.
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Join us in Berlin for provocative presentations from the leaders in PDF technology!
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The PDF Association invites members and ISO TC 171 delegates to PDF Week Berlin 2025!
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For over 40 years, JLB INFORMATIQUE has been a pioneeri … Read more
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PDF Guru is an online platform that helps user manage P … Read more
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Incorporated in 1997 to develop Imaging and PDF format … Read more
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Based in Baltimore, MD, NISO’s mission is to build know … Read more
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Technology consulting for IT companies
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The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity ( … Read more
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Codegic is a security provider specializing in innovati … Read more
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The Ghent Workgroup, formed in June 2002, is an interna … Read more
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