Excerpt: From our experiences with our users over the years, although the initial use case may be limited, we have noticed that requirements and expectations of documents increase over time. For example, if you don’t take data extraction into account in the initial PDF creation use case, it becomes much harder to support that requirement after the fact. That’s why we always strongly recommend taking standards like PDF/A (or PDF/UA) into consideration when generating documents. Since PDF/A documents are … Read more
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From our experiences with our users over the years, although the initial use case may be limited, we have noticed that requirements and expectations of documents increase over time. For example, if you don’t take data extraction into account in the initial PDF creation use case, it becomes much harder to support that requirement after the fact. That’s why we always strongly recommend taking standards like PDF/A (or PDF/UA) into consideration when generating documents. Since PDF/A documents are self-contained, they are ideal for data storage and archiving purposes.
– Raf Hens, CTO at iText Software