You already know that the PDF Association hosts educational events centered on PDF technology. Perhaps you are wondering what else the PDF Association does? This session will provide an overview of the mission and activities of the organization, including: Technical and Liaison Working Groups The ISO standards program Industry standards development Industry programs Technical publications … Read more
How significant is PDF in itself? How do people think about PDF? Is PDF a proxy term for “digital document”? In an update to his 2018 presentation on “PDF statistics”, PDF Association CEO Duff Johnson reviews some key facts and statistics about PDF’s utilization, popular awareness and reliance on the format.
A survey of the major developments at “the ISO table” since the last in-person event in 2019. This session can help attendees to identify other PDF Days Europe 2020 sessions pertaining to specific technologies. This PDF Association session is presented by the Vice Chair, ISO Liaison Officer and Managing Director of callas software, Dietrich von Seggern … Read more
The PDF specification is critical to the PDF technology ecosystem and its stakeholders. “The spec” is the “law” that defines what a valid PDF file must be. While PDF does not have a reference implementation, the common practice of relying on reverse-engineering the work of others, or examining PDFs “from the wild” tends to lead … Read more
The concept of a digital document in PDF format has been around since the first versions of Adobe’s product in the 1990’s. Since its publication as an open standard in 2008, the format has become ubiquitous to documents worldwide and is often referred to as the “digital paper” of our time. One finds its use … Read more
The PDF Association’s CTO, Peter Wyatt, will walk through the many and various free technical resources provided by the PDF Association. Understand: the roadmap and brief history across all PDF technical resources; how the technical resources are organized and arranged at https://pdfa.org/resources and in GitHub https://github.com/pdf-association; where to locate specific kinds of technical information; why … Read more
ISO 32005 is a new Technical Standard from WG9 (for which I am the ISO Project Leader) aimed at aligning and unifying the capabilities of the PDF 1.7 and PDF 2.0 tagset. This talk will introduce this concept and how it has been incorporated into 14289-2 along with the PDF Association driven Well-Tagged PDF (WTPDF) … Read more
Email is one of the most ubiquitous and widely disseminated, and also one of the least preserved and difficult to manage, of electronic document formats. While the preservation community has developed email-specific tools and preservation pathways, PDF provides a new and scalable approach that can be used to archive email messages, folders, and even accounts. … Read more
This is a follow-on talk from our 2021 PDF Days presentation on the File Observatory. Our team built the File Observatory to support Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)’s SafeDocs program by enabling parser developers to understand features of PDFs in the wild at scale. In the first part of our presentation, we’ll offer an overview … Read more
Almost 10 years ago, ZUGFeRD 1.0, the first invoice data format based on the public standards UN/CEFACT CII and PDF/A-3, was published. The stated intention was to digitize invoice exchange and make the transition from paper to data for SMEs and single users as smooth as possible without losing efficiency. The idea of using PDF/A-3 … Read more