PDF in the Wild

Accessibility | veraPDF version 1.28.1 | Chrome PDF features updates | Transparency blending | Screen readers and special characters | MathML | … Read more

AI’s Pirated-Books Problem | Correcting US financial regulations referencing PDF | New crawl limit improves CC’s capture of PDF | W3C note … Read more

When will AI understand document semantics? | Will LLM-based OCR live up to the challenge? | Indicating whether the publisher allows PDF … Read more

PDF bookmarks from Google Chrome? | What does “PDF” mean to you? | Two reasons why everyone needs PDF | PDF tricks … Read more

Doom in a PDF | PDF Week Boston 2025 | The EAA is coming! | AI and accessibility standards | Patch for … Read more

A close-up look at how PDF does text | What would Patton think? | Word bug blocks PDF/UA validators, Happy Holidays & … Read more

New guidance on PDF Portable Collections and on digitizing paper. | US Army website features PDF/UA | PDFism! | Scratch-and-sniff PDF? | … Read more

In 2025 Europe will require ebooks to be accessible and include detailed accessibility metadata while Germany will require e-invoicing. | ACM in … Read more

File type for downloadable forms, in 3 letters | Mobile devices are pain-points for forms | But, Android support for PDF is … Read more

Devs must VALIDATE before applying ISO-standardized subset metadata to PDFs! | PDF Week Prague accommodations | OPF patches JHOVE | ISO TC … Read more

Wired likes PDF/A, Google and Apple do PDF creation from phone cameras, EA-PDF is already in the wild, the latest Samsung folding … Read more

What do “first class companies” do? Japanese media covers the PDF Association in Tokyo. Firefox adds experimental alt. text generation to PDF. … Read more

Microsoft deepens its investment in Tagged PDF. We talked PDF with NISO. Both Android and iOS improve PDF handling. A major vulnerability … Read more

Hugging Face.AI examines PDF. New PDF support in Android. Google reinvents a 31 year-old PDF feature. FireFox wants you to know that … Read more

The latest veraPDF release candidate adds PDF/UA-2 support. LibreOffice creates PDF/A and PDF/UA together. A “white paper” gets PDF wrong, again. Visualizing … Read more

PDF Week Online 2024 week 2 is coming up! Did you know that PDF 2.0 adds ARIA to PDF? How about a … Read more

LibreOffice now supports PDF/UA! AI LLMs’ support for PDF is substandard, and is retarding innovation. Yet more misinformation about malware. PDFacademicBot for … Read more

Verizon is tricked by a fraudulent PDF, a family tree of PDF specifications, veraPDF is tops for the Open Preservation Foundation in … Read more