Updates from the meeting-place of the PDF industry.
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The poster sessions are a great way to interact with each other at PDF Days Europe 2025!
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Here’s what previous PDF Days attendees have told me about this event, and why attending is a good investment.
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Experience since PDF/UA-1 was published has revealed that some rules were too prescriptive. In some situations the semantic significance of an image is due to its representation of text, and vice versa. PDF/UA-2 to the rescue.
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This recently published report from ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 34 presents an analysis of related standards, the current status and size of the CSC industry, the cultural importance of continuously scrollable comics, and various technical challenges.
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PDF has long relied on Flate for general-purpose data compression. Today, Brotli has emerged as a promising new approach that could significantly improve PDF compression ratios.
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If you use a word processor creating Tagged PDF is your default. | FOGRA’s summary of developments in print | The US Library of Congress is studying the PDF Association’s EA-PDF format | Office Open XML gets its first errata update in nine years. | PDFacademicBot for June 2025
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Berlin ist calling! Are you ready for the big city?
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Technical and Solution posters are a great way to showcase your ideas and interact with attendees at PDF Days Europe 2025!
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This article explains the options in allowing, limiting, and/or preventing data scraping from occurring when AI and text data mining tools are used.
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This document provides essential guidance and recommendations for those aiming to create PDF files that adhere to multiple ISO-standardized subsets of PDF, specifically PDF/A (ISO 19005) for archiving and PDF/UA (ISO 14289) for accessibility.
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This document provides guidance and recommendations for application developers who want to create PDF files that conform to more than one ISO-standardized subset of PDF, specifically PDF/A (ISO 19005) and PDF/UA (ISO 14289).
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This release of iText by Apryse brings support for .NET MAUI AOT compilation, and automated PDF/UA-2 validation during document creation. There’s also significant enhancement to PDF/UA creation and conversion from HTML, PDF optimization, and iText’s advanced typography features.
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Foxit announces Agentic AI, a suite of AI tools integrated into Foxit Editor, designed to transform how professionals engage with complex documents. Highlights include smarter document chat, real-time web search, and a research assistant that breaks down dense PDFs into structured insights.
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pdfAssistant’s Save as Press-Ready PDF/X Add-On for Adobe Express provides essential granular control over critical page box margins, streamlining workflows and boosting confidence in final print output.
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Actual Reports announces ISO 27001 certification for enhanced security, the launch of Web Forms for streamlined data collection, and expanded PDF Services, demonstrating a deep commitment to product innovation and customer value.
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It’s Prime Day! Save big on UPDF, the ultimate PDF editor empowered by AI. Enjoy up to $10 OFF and exclusive deals for a limited time only. Upgrade your PDF experience now!
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The latest JPedal release introduces new features, practical enhancements, and important bug fixes, making PDF editing, manipulation more robust for developers and users.
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Latest G2 Recognition Reinforces UPDF’s Position as a Leading Innovator in Digital Document Solutions
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pdfAssistant spotlights the powerful capability to generate entirely new PDF files from scratch using artificial intelligence. This approach transforms the process of creating PDF documents from a manual chore into an AI-driven experience.
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PDFix’s latest update introduces advanced template-driven auto-tagging, enabling organizations to automatically create PDF/UA-compliant documents in high-volume workflows. Ideal for invoices, statements, and reports, this solution streamlines accessibility from document creation – no manual intervention required.
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UPDF received Capterra’s prestigious 2025 “Best Ease of Use” badge for PDF Editors, underscoring its commitment to delivering intuitive, powerful PDF solutions for individuals and businesses. This honor highlights UPDF’s exceptional functionality and user-focused design.
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This article explains the application of Datalogics’ Adobe PDF Library to express TDMRep in a PDF to protect your data from AI scraping.
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MobiPDF is redefining mobile document scanning with AI-powered features like automatic border detection, shadow correction, and OCR, delivering perfect scans even in challenging conditions.
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pdfRest announces the launch of its new Set Page Boxes API Tool, offering developers unprecedented control over the fundamental layout of PDF documents.
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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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A powerful open source C++ PDF manipulation library.
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A free online tool to assess the accessibility tagging quality of PDF documents, based on PDF/UA. Designed for quick diagnostics and early-stage checks by non-specialists.
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ADEPT UA uses a flow-based, rules-driven engine to automate the the remediation of fully accessible PDF UA files from high-volume system output without templates or manual remediation.
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Foxit PDF Editor Cloud provides users a cost-effective, … Read more
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– Edit text in PDF – Edit image in PDF – Edit or add links in PDF – Convert PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Images, HTML, XML, PDF/A, Text , or CSV with OCR technology – Annotate PDF with highlights, underline, strike-though, stamps, stickers, text boxes, or draw on PDF – Organize PDF pages, such as delete, rearrange, rotate, extract, and replace pages – Protect PDF by adding open password or permission password – Share PDF via a link or through email – View PDF across all devices with dark mode – Support changing the background color of PDF – 1 license of UPDF on 4 devices (1 Windows + 1 macOS + 1 iOS + 1 Android)
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BFO Publisher converts HTML and XML+CSS to PDF. With su … Read more
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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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For over 40 years, JLB INFORMATIQUE has been a pioneeri … Read more
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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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