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Shawn Gaither

Shawn Gaither has been working on PDF structure for 25 years at Adobe, and has led efforts in OCR, eBooks, accessibility, document comparison, form field detection, and most recently structure detection for Liquid Mode on Acrobat mobile.

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Presentation April 26, 2022

What’s stopping PDF from ubiquitous acceptance?

PDFs have been around for nearly 30 years now and the very ability to ensure perfect representation of graphic content … Read more

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