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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

This article was recently updated. The new version was posted on February 16, 2021. 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 …



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 reused by downstream applications. Find out how “Deriving HTML from PDF” addresses this issue by leveraging tagged PDF.

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.


US Access Board affirms: PDF/UA required for “modern” PDF software

The US Access Board who sets policy for US federal agencies and contractor’s deliverables has agreed to require PDF/UA.

Section 508 and the US Capitol building.


Boeing’s digital transformation journey: interview with Kenny Swope

We interviewed Kenny Swope about his keynote session at the Electronic Document Conference in Seattle, and asked him some questions about Boeing’s digital transformation.

Aircraft and the moon.


Why the need to redact implies using PDF

How do you redact content in HTML? The format doesn’t really include that concept. In both principle and practice, committing to a rendering is definitive; final, portable and generic; it’s what the use case demands. Redaction demands PDF.

Redacted document with the word