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February 2024, Duff Johnson

It’s time for AI integrators to help authors make semantically rich documents… and step up their game on PDF inputs.

January 2024, PDF Association staff

A major focus of the PDF Association’s work is to increase awareness and adoption of standards and best practices for accessibility.

January 2024, PDF Association staff

The PDF, ICC, NITF and video datasets used in SafeDocs’ performer hackathons and evaluations are now available for download from digitalcorpora.org.

December 2023, PDF Association staff

In 2023, the volunteers and staff of the PDF Association were busier than ever, with new working groups, resources, and projects to … Read more

December 2023, Duff Johnson

It’s difficult to find other search terms that share PDF’s continuous upwards trend. Few technologies show this resilience, especially over such a … Read more

December 2023, PDF Association staff

Join this webinar to learn why PDF/X-1a was a good idea 20 years ago, but no longer today and find out about … Read more

December 2023, PDF Association staff

The Imaging Model Technical Working Group (TWG) will now focus on the research, specification, and prototyping at the very core of the … Read more

November 2023, Dietrich von Seggern

Callas software’s Dietrich von Seggern describes a few of the innovative technologies under consideration for PDF as discussed at the PDF Association’s … Read more

October 2023, Peter Wyatt

Although PDF is commonly understood as a single holistic file format, in reality, PDF comprises a number of distinct dialects, each designed … Read more

October 2023, PDF Association staff

5 years ago the PDF Accessibility LWG began a project to develop a set of accessibility techniques for PDF files. This project … Read more

October 2023, National Archives and Records Administration

New federal regulations set digitization standards for permanent records and require agencies to manage their permanent records in digital format.

September 2023, Thomas Zellmann

To encourage marketing staff to sign up for the PDF Technology Marketing Working Group we decided to record a recent presentation to … Read more

September 2023, PDF Association staff

PDF Week in San Francisco this October is hosting a free industry Symposium on Advancing the PDF Imaging Model! There’s still time … Read more

September 2023, Apryse

Read Riley Kooh’s vision for the future of PDF technology over the next 25 years.

August 2023, Peter Wyatt

The PDF Association’s PDF cheat sheets are designed to help developers work more efficiently. They are highly condensed summaries, with information grouped … Read more

August 2023, Duff Johnson

The PDF industry mourns the passing of the Adobe founder and visionary whose inventions and insights led to the creation of PDF.

August 2023, Peter Wyatt

PDF is a large, complex specification! Developers often look for first steps in its implementation. This article offers some suggestions.

July 2023, Duff Johnson

Overcoming ossification requires everyone to agree on the strategy and specific technical changes affecting all stakeholders.