Matthew Hardy
Chair of these communities: PDF Reuse TWG | PDF/UA TWGMatthew first started working with PDF technology in 1999, investigating document semantics in PDF as part of his PhD research, sponsored by Adobe. Matthew has worked for Adobe since 2005 in various technical roles and manages teams working on PDF technology spanning the document cloud, including Mobile, Desktop and Web. In addition to his engineering management role, Matthew has been a representative to the ISO committees developing the PDF, PDF/A and PDF/UA since 2010 and is an active member of several PDF Association TWGs.
Matthew Hardy's Publications
Article July 28, 2023
The PDF Association is proud to announce the release of “ISO/TS 32005 Document management – Portable Document Format – PDF … Read more
Article March 23, 2023
The goal of the Well-Tagged PDF (WTPDF) specification is to ensure high-quality documents that are suitable for content reuse, extraction, … Read more
Presentation May 4, 2022
ISO 32005 is a new Technical Standard from WG9 (for which I am the ISO Project Leader) aimed at aligning … Read more
Member News September 25, 2020
Adobe is excited to announce the release of Liquid Mode for Adobe Acrobat Mobile. Digital experiences have never been more … Read more
PDF Association news September 9, 2020
The PDF Reuse TWG is facilitating the reuse of document content and semantics on a diverse set of devices and … Read more
Presentation January 7, 2020
There is a lot of familiarity with how to tag PDF for use in the Accessibility space. However, what is … Read more
Presentation June 17, 2019
As the nature of computing has changed, bringing screens from the size of watches to interactive walls, how do documents … Read more
Presentation May 14, 2018
Member News August 15, 2011
PDF developers know that Adobe turned over PDF to ISO in 2008 with the publication of ISO 32000-1, the ISO-ized … Read more