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PDF in the work-from-home (WFH) world of COVID-19

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Apple tags PDF

Apple’s desktop suite, Pages, Keynote and Numbers, now supports creation of tagged (and thus, accessible and reusable) PDF.

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The day the ADA came to web content

As of October 7, 2019, websites and mobile applications in the U.S. will be assessed as “public accommodations”, and the Americans with Disabilities Act will apply.

Dominos falling.


With PDF the archive becomes the “Noah’s Ark” for every document

To survive a great flood Noah brought pairs from every species aboard his ark. But is this approach – gathering the full diversity of document formats – genuinely suitable for archiving?

Animals in a boat.


Trump’s call with Zelensky: the PDF

Earlier this year we covered the release of the Mueller Report covering the Special Counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US election. We highlighted how, in the digital age, the choices made in releasing that document made it …

Screenshot of the transcript PDF.


PDF: The document format for everything

PDF is one of the most widely used formats worldwide. Numerous companies use it to exchange information between business partners or in-house. PDF offers various possibilities – which is why the format is complex. Sometimes it is necessary to define …



How you see PDFs versus how a search engine sees PDFs

Instead of retrieving and searching each file in its associated application, a search engine needs to review all files together in binary format, opening the door to concurrent searching and advanced search options working across the entire repository.

Magnifying glass over data.


PDF on the web, then and now

Users printing to PDF are throwing away information that could be leveraged by downstream applications. It’s becoming expensive to create PDF documents cheaply.

Screenshot of tagged PDF highlighting the P tag and its content.


A Visual-Meta Approach

The Visual-Meta approach take the metadata out of of the document internals and presents it as an appendix at the end of the document, allowing the reader software to parse the content of the document and to provide interactions such …



Archiving email into PDF containers: A Mellon Foundation project

What are the essential characteristics and optimal functional requirements of email messages and necessary related information in a PDF technology-based archive? This project sets out to answer that question.



My takeaways from the EDC 2019 in Seattle

Dietrich von Seggern from callas software is just back from Electronic Document Conference (EDC) in Seattle. His short summary: It was a very good event and he is happy that the PDF Association decided to have it in North America …

A scene from the Electronic Document Conference.


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