PDF has never been a static or stagnant technology – to stay relevant PDF must adapt to the needs of content and its many stakeholders. Although more recent PDF changes … Read more
This keynote highlights the regulatory landscape in Germany and the EU, with a focus on the real-world requirements for making digital documents accessible.
The PDF Association is a beehive of activity in its many Technical Working Groups (TWGs) and Liaison Working Groups (LWGs). These Working Groups are where PDF’s diverse practitioners and stakeholders … Read more
The PDF specification defines a rich, flexible document format—but in practice, much of what end users encounter is shaped not by the spec itself, but by long-standing implementation decisions from … Read more
In a world where users expect to collaborate when authoring or editing content, where AI agents are out there performing actions on behalf of their users (or even themselves!), what … Read more
PDF Association Member Benefits Manager Melina Tusch and Chief Technical Officer Peter Wyatt will briefly cover the features and benefits of membership in the PDF Association, highlighting how membership brings … Read more
Artificial intelligence transforms the creation, processing, and analysis of digital documents, with implications in law and policy. This keynote examines core applications such as opt-in and opt-out preferences, fraud detection, … Read more
The most exciting, capable, feature packed file format today is…PDF! But, for better or worse, PDF is hindered by its own longevity and the preconceptions and misconceptions surrounding what it … Read more
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming the field of digital accessibility—but what does this mean for one of the most stubborn formats: PDF? This session offers a compelling introduction to the … Read more
The PDF Association’s Techniques for accessible PDF are developed by the PDF Accessibility LWG. The first release occurred in January 2025, and the collection grows each quarter as LWG members … Read more
We analyse large volume of real world PDF coming from two public sources: Digital Corpora (8M PDFs) randomly crawled PDFs on the Web with recent creation dates These collections are … Read more
PDF documents are foundational to secure communication in industries like legal, finance, and healthcare, yet ensuring their authenticity, integrity, and origin remains a complex challenge. As a Technical Support Engineer … Read more
Print is booming in areas such as packaging, label and display. Modern prepress and print workflows relying on the PDF format have far reaching requirements on quality of internal structure … Read more
This presentation introduces an open source implementation of the canonical serialization algorithm defined in ISO 16684-2:2014, integrated into the PoDoFo C++ PDF manipulation library. It also features a Relax NG … Read more
Recent advances in generative AI have captured the headlines in recent years and its advantages and limitations are well known among a wide audience. But the more traditional form of … Read more