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Our mission

Delivering a vendor-neutral platform for developing open specifications and standards for PDF technology.

Our vision

Driving the world’s digital document format into the 21st century and beyond.


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Home of the worldwide PDF technical community

Mission statement

To provide a vendor-neutral platform for the developers, users and other stakeholders of open specifications and standards for PDF technology and digital document technologies.

Vision statement

To facilitate common understanding and interoperability between developers using PDF’s specifications and standards.


FEATURED NEWS

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Callas software’s Dietrich von Seggern describes a few of the innovative technologies under consideration for PDF as discussed at the PDF Association’s recent Symposium on Advancing the …

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We wanted to know how well ChatGPT processes PDF files. So we signed up for ChatGPT 4.0, the paid version, …

Article Peter Wyatt
October 30, 2023

Although PDF is commonly understood as a single holistic file format, in reality, PDF comprises a number of distinct dialects, …

5 years ago the PDF Accessibility LWG began a project to develop a set of accessibility techniques for PDF files. …

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October 26, 2023

New federal regulations set digitization standards for permanent records and require agencies to manage their permanent records in digital format.

PDF Week Fall 2023 in San Francisco covered subjects ranging from HDR to compression, color fonts, animation, accessibility and (much!) …

The PDF Association is perhaps DARPA’s smallest-ever prime contractor. For DARPA’s SafeDocs program, however, it’s also the biggest success story.

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Core Communities

Chaired by Stuart Galt

PDF support for engineering applications.

Chaired by Roman Toda

Exploring pathways to expressing PDF content in HTML.

Advancing forms technology in PDF.

Chaired by Peter Wyatt

PDF errata, new features and ISO 32000.

Archiving PDF, including ISO 19005.

Accessible PDF, including oversight of ISO 14289.

FEATURED EVENTS

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PDF Week Online 2024

PDF Week Online 2024 is a virtual meeting (audio / screen-share only) for PDF Association members and ISO delegates.

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PDF Week Prague 2024 November 11, 2024 // Czech Republic
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