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The Arlington PDF Model, a presentation by Peter Wyatt at PDF Days Online 2021

Presented at PDF Days Europe 2021
( 2021, Sep )

The Arlington PDF Model

A specification-derived, machine-readable definition of PDF

Excerpt: This talk will present the Arlington PDF Model as the first open access, vendor-neutral, comprehensive, specification-derived machine-readable definition of all formally defined PDF objects and their intra- and inter-object relationships. This represents the bulk of the latest 1,000-page ISO PDF 2.0 specification in a machine-readable text-based definition of the entire PDF DOM. It establishes a state of the art “ground truth” for future PDF research efforts and implementers. Using either trivia … Read more
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Peter Wyatt is the PDF Association’s CTO and an independent technology consultant with deep file format and parsing expertise. A developer and researcher working on PDF technologies for more than … Read more


Peter Wyatt
PDF Association

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This talk will present the Arlington PDF Model as the first open access, vendor-neutral, comprehensive, specification-derived machine-readable definition of all formally defined PDF objects and their intra- and inter-object relationships. This represents the bulk of the latest 1,000-page ISO PDF 2.0 specification in a machine-readable text-based definition of the entire PDF DOM. It establishes a state of the art “ground truth” for future PDF research efforts and implementers. Using either trivial Linux commands, or simple scripts, or more advanced programs a multitude of potential use-cases are supported, including test case generation, extant data validation, parser generation, modelling and rapid forensic analysis of PDF syntax fragments.


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