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Thomas Zellmann is PDF Champion for 2025!

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Including Custom Metadata Structures in PDF fills a gap for organizations seeking to leverage metadata in business processes. By articulating … Read more

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Member News November 3, 2025

callas software today announces the appointment of Elahe Saberinia as Channel Manager.

Member News October 28, 2025

Adobe PDF Library now supports timestamp digital signatures and includes major security and performance updates – empowering developers to create … Read more

Member News October 28, 2025

PDFix Desktop 2.5 brings measurable gains in speed, accuracy, and automation for accessibility teams – delivering cleaner tagging, built-in PDF/UA … Read more

Member News October 23, 2025

PDFs are visually focused, not AI-friendly, but transforming tagged PDFs into structured formats such as HTML or XML makes their … Read more

Member News October 23, 2025

Discover the new PAC 2026 Beta, the world’s first free PDF accessibility checker with built-in AI. Automatically detect and evaluate … Read more

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Milestones in the History of PDF | Chrome’s newest feature | JPEG 2000 turns 25 | Windows 11 October 2025 … Read more

Article October 17, 2025

The PDF industry is preparing for the quantum era by adopting post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standards. Following key developments at PDF … Read more

Member News October 17, 2025

Get up to 43% OFF + 1 Month of Free UPDF AI — Only from October 16 to November 3!

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This Application Note describes means of incorporating custom metadata structures into PDF files, and includes guidance to assist organizations in … Read more

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At the PRINTING United Expo, October 22-24 in Orlando, Florida, Crawford Technologies will address industry challenges such as rising print … Read more

Member News October 13, 2025

Datalogics has achieved SOC 2 Type 2 certification as audited and attested by Prescient Security.

Member News October 9, 2025

pdfRest’s newest innovation is the Summarize PDF API Tool, an AI-powered REST API that uses OpenAI technology to intelligently analyze, … Read more

Home of the worldwide
PDF technical community


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Our mission Delivering a vendor-neutral platform for developing open specifications and standards for PDF technology.
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Our vision Driving the world’s digital document format into the 21st century and beyond.
 

Featured News


October 2025 by PDF Association staff
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The wait is over! The recordings of all the presentations of PDF Days Europe are online and ready for you!

PDF Association news

October 2025 by PDF Association staff
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Visit PDF Association staff‘s profile.

Thomas Zellmann is PDF Champion for 2025!

PDF Association news

October 2025 by PDF Association staff
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Including Custom Metadata Structures in PDF fills a gap for organizations seeking to leverage metadata in business processes. By articulating … Read more

PDF Association news

Our Valued Members


What's happening on pdfa.org

What's happening on pdfa.org



Member News November 3, 2025

callas software today announces the appointment of Elahe Saberinia as Channel Manager.

Member News October 28, 2025

Adobe PDF Library now supports timestamp digital signatures and includes major security and performance updates – empowering developers to create … Read more

Member News October 28, 2025

PDFix Desktop 2.5 brings measurable gains in speed, accuracy, and automation for accessibility teams – delivering cleaner tagging, built-in PDF/UA … Read more

Member News October 23, 2025

PDFs are visually focused, not AI-friendly, but transforming tagged PDFs into structured formats such as HTML or XML makes their … Read more

Member News October 23, 2025

Discover the new PAC 2026 Beta, the world’s first free PDF accessibility checker with built-in AI. Automatically detect and evaluate … Read more

Article October 22, 2025

Milestones in the History of PDF | Chrome’s newest feature | JPEG 2000 turns 25 | Windows 11 October 2025 … Read more

Article October 17, 2025

The PDF industry is preparing for the quantum era by adopting post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standards. Following key developments at PDF … Read more

Member News October 17, 2025

Get up to 43% OFF + 1 Month of Free UPDF AI — Only from October 16 to November 3!

Resource October 16, 2025

This Application Note describes means of incorporating custom metadata structures into PDF files, and includes guidance to assist organizations in … Read more

Member News October 15, 2025

At the PRINTING United Expo, October 22-24 in Orlando, Florida, Crawford Technologies will address industry challenges such as rising print … Read more

Member News October 13, 2025

Datalogics has achieved SOC 2 Type 2 certification as audited and attested by Prescient Security.

Member News October 9, 2025

pdfRest’s newest innovation is the Summarize PDF API Tool, an AI-powered REST API that uses OpenAI technology to intelligently analyze, … Read more

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