Invented by Adobe Systems over 20 years ago, the Portable Document Format (PDF) is now an open standard for electronic document exchange maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). When you convert documents, forms, graphics, and web pages to PDF, they look just like they would if printed.

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Choosing the Best Document Viewer for Your Web App

Choosing the right document viewer for display is a crucial step in your journey to developing a web application. The document viewer should be...
Leon Atherton
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How to convert PDF files to ePUB

Not all PDFs are created equally. Some go beyond simple visual layouts and include internal tags that describe the document’s structure. These are known...
Jacob Collins
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How to extract text from a PDF as JSON

Some PDF files can be “tagged” which means they contain information about the structure of the file. This structure is embedded as metadata within...
Jacob Collins
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How to process PDFs for use with AI (Tutorial)

As Artificial Intelligence becomes more popular for processing large bodies of text, it becomes apparent that PDF files pose a challenge. PDF is a...
Jacob Collins
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What is inside a PDF file?

A PDF document structure consists of several components that determines how text, images and other elements are stored and displayed. It is a binary...
Jacob Collins
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PDF.js Alternative for PDF Documents

  Display Documents on Web Apps PDF.js is maintained by Mozilla for Firefox, but it works reasonably well with other browsers. It allows you...
Leon Atherton
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