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How to Choose the Right PDFix Solution for Accessible PDFs

Post February 7, 2026

Making PDFs accessible is no longer optional. Regulations such as PDF/UA and WCAG require organizations to ensure that documents are usable by people with…

Font Fix (PDFix)

Post February 5, 2026

Automatically recover missing glyph Unicode mappings in PDFs using OCR – 100% Free,100% Local PDFix's Font Fix action solves a critical PDF accessibility problem:…

PDFix Marketplace Launches Automated Font Fix Actions for PDF/UA Accessibility

Post February 4, 2026

Release: February 2026 PDFix Marketplace releases two powerful external actions designed to automate PDF font repair and accelerate PDF/UA accessibility compliance. These Docker-based actions…

How to Automatically Set Table Cell Scope in Tagged PDFs

Post January 23, 2026

Incorrect or missing table cell scope is one of the most common issues in tagged PDFs and a frequent cause of accessibility errors. While…

How to Fix PDF Fonts Automatically for Accessibility and PDF/UA Compliance

Post January 17, 2026

Font problems are the silent killers of PDF accessibility compliance. If you've ever watched font errors destroy an otherwise perfect accessibility remediation, you're not…

Best PDF Accessibility Checker 2025: Validate PDF/UA with veraPDF – Complete Guide

Post December 11, 2025

A comprehensive follow-up to our live webinar on December 11, 2025 Download PDFix Desktop Lite 1. Why PDFix Chose to Integrate veraPDF Into Our…

ADA Accessibility Deadline 2026: How Governments Can Automate PDF Compliance with PDFix

Post December 6, 2025

The ADA accessibility deadline 2026 requires federal agencies and universities to meet WCAG standards. Learn how PDFix automates Section 508 PDF remediation and helps…

Best AI Models for Auto-Tagging PDFs in 2025: Fast, Accurate, and PDF/UA-Ready

Post November 30, 2025

ADA website accessibility lawsuits surged by 37% in the first half of 2025, with 2,014 cases filed. The problem? Around 90% of PDFs are…

How to Generate PDF Alt Text Automatically: 4 Methods from Manual to AI-Powered (2025 Guide)

Post November 26, 2025

Missing alternate description – Figure or Formula Alt, Actual Text, Table Summary, Annotation Contents – is blocking millions of screen reader users from accessing…

Font Fix (callas software)

Post November 25, 2025

Automatically resolve font issues in PDF documents with callas software's PDF technology PDFix integrates callas software's professional-grade font fixing capabilities to automatically repair common…

Auto-Tag PDFs with AI-Powered IBM’s Docling: Make Documents Accessible in Minutes

Post November 17, 2025

Why PDF Accessibility Auto-Tagging Matters Now With the accessibility compliance deadlines approaching and over 4,000 lawsuits filed in 2023, organizations face a critical challenge:…

How Deutsche Bank Automated PDF Accessibility Compliance with PDFix SDK

Post November 12, 2025

Deutsche Bank faced a challenge that's becoming critical across financial services: how do you make millions of PDFs accessible when every document contains sensitive…

Auto-Tag PDF (Docling IBM)

Post November 6, 2025

Start automating accessibility with IBM’s Docling AI — a 100% free, 100% local solution that transforms PDF remediation with enterprise-grade accuracy, zero cloud dependency,…

veraPDF as the Best PDF Accessibility Checker in 2026 – Review & Webinar Recording

Post November 5, 2025

Expert Review, Validation Analysis & Full Webinar Recording Is veraPDF the Best PDF Accessibility Checker 2026? veraPDF is the leading open-source validator for PDF/UA…

PDFix Desktop 2.5 Released – Smoother Tagging and Smarter Navigation

Post October 22, 2025

The latest PDFix Desktop 2.5 releases deliver a series of refinements focused on accessibility, usability, and performance. From smarter tag management to improved navigation…

How USCIS Automated Section 508 PDF Accessibility Compliance with PDFix Desktop

Post October 20, 2025

With the 2026 ADA accessibility deadline fast approaching, federal agencies face mounting pressure to ensure digital content meets strict compliance standards. The U.S. Citizenship…

New AI-Driven PDFix SDK Release – Faster PDF Accessibility Automation

Post October 20, 2025

Make every PDF accessible – automatically. The latest PDFix SDK 8.7.6. release brings a new wave of AI-powered automation for PDF accessibility, tagging, and…

⏰ Generate Figure and Formula Alt Text, MathML, Table Summaries, and Annotation Descriptions Automatically with PDFix Desktop

Post October 18, 2025

Stop Manually Writing Figure Alt Text, Formula MathML, Table Summaries, and Annotation Descriptions — Automate PDF Accessibility in Seconds Watch our live webinar and…

Auto-Tagging PDFs with PDFix Desktop

Post October 16, 2025

Making PDFs accessible doesn’t have to be complicated. PDFix Desktop provides a user-friendly interface to auto-tag documents, giving non-developers the ability to improve accessibility…

PDF/UA-1 Accessibility Validator Comparison

Post October 12, 2025

Ensuring that PDF documents are accessible is a critical part of building inclusive, compliant, and user-friendly digital content. A key step in this process…

Generate Alternate Text (Salesforce BLIP)

Post October 11, 2025

Stop manually writing hundreds of image descriptions. PDFix Desktop now integrates with Salesforce BLIP – 100% Free PDFix now integrates with BLIP – Salesforce's…

Making Millions of PDFs Accessible at Scale – The PDFix Pipeline Approach

Post September 29, 2025

Enterprises in banking, finance, and business services produce millions of PDFs every year – from customer bank statements to vendor invoices. Yet most remain…

Unlocking PDF Accessibility at Scale for Enterprises | PDFix at PDF Days Europe 2025

Post September 16, 2025

At PDF Days Europe 2025 – the premier global conference where industry leaders, experts, and enterprises gather to shape the future of PDF technology…

Auto-Tagging PDFs with PDFix SDK

Post September 16, 2025

Ensuring PDF accessibility is essential for both compliance and usability. However, manual tagging is time-consuming, inconsistent, and nearly impossible at scale. With PDFix SDK,…

How to Add an Alternate Description to PDF Figure Tags

Post September 12, 2025

Figures and images often contain critical information in a PDF – from charts and graphs to product photos and scanned documents. But without an…

PDFix at PDF Days Europe 2025: Unlocking PDF Accessibility for Enterprises

Post September 1, 2025

We’re excited to announce that PDFix will be in Berlin for PDF Days Europe 2025 – the leading event for professionals shaping the future…

AutoTag PDF (Amazon Textract)

Post August 25, 2025

Auto-Tag PDFs with Amazon Textract: Fast, Scalable Cloud OCR for PDF Accessibility PDFix now integrates with Amazon Textract, AWS’s cloud-based OCR and document analysis…

How to Make Weekly Reports Accessible: Solving a Common Business Challenge

Post August 23, 2025

Weekly reports are the heartbeat of many companies. From financial summaries and sales performance to project updates and KPI dashboards, these reports help teams…

How to Define Headings for Auto-Tagging with PDFix

Post August 23, 2025

Headings are the backbone of accessible PDFs. Without them, readers using screen readers face endless streams of unstructured text, making documents frustrating or impossible…

How to Automatically Tag Complex PDF Tables with PDFix

Post August 18, 2025

Manually tagging long, complex, or repeated tables in PDFs can take hours — especially across large document batches. With PDFix Layout Template, you can…

Automated PDF Accessibility Tagging with Amazon Textract and PDFix

Post August 16, 2025

Looking for a faster way to make PDFs accessible and PDF/UA-compliant? PDFix now integrates with Amazon Textract, bringing AI into your document workflows. With…

VeraPDF Validation

Post August 14, 2025

Validate PDFs with the industry-supported veraPDF validator and generate audit-ready validation reports to prove compliance. Validate documents locally with complete privacy, zero additional costs,…

Arlington PDF Model

Post August 14, 2025

Catch PDF structural errors and syntax violations with the specification-derived Arlington PDF Model. Stop guessing if your PDF follows ISO 32000-2 specifications – validate…

Duplicate MCID Report

Post August 14, 2025

A Java CLI tool for validating the compliance of PDF documents with accessibility standards such as WCAG, or PDF/UA. https://github.com/pdfix/action-validate-pdf-pdfix-java 🆓 🖥️ [Free][Local]Duplicate MCID…

Language Detection

Post August 14, 2025

A Docker image that automatically detects the language of a PDF file. It uses a configuration file for customizable options and can be run…

OCR Tesseract

Post August 14, 2025

Transform scanned PDFs into searchable, accessible documents with Tesseract OCR – 100% Free, 100% Local PDFix integrates Tesseract OCR, the industry-standard open-source OCR engine…

HTML to PDF Conversion (Google Chrome)

Post August 14, 2025

Convert HTML pages and URLs into accessible PDF/UA documents with Google Headless Chrome and PDFix SDK -100% Free, 100% Local PDFix integrates Google Headless…

Generate Formula MathML (OpenAI)

Post August 14, 2025

Transform inaccessible mathematical formulas in PDFs into screen reader-compatible MathML automatically with AI. PDFix now integrates with OpenAI Vision to automatically convert mathematical formulas…

Generate Formula MathML (Paddle)

Post August 14, 2025

Transform inaccessible mathematical formulas into screen reader-compatible MathML – 100% Free, 100% Local PDFix now integrates with Paddle's open-source technology to automatically convert mathematical…

Generate Alternate Text (OpenAI)

Post August 14, 2025

Transform PDF accessibility with enterprise-grade AI that understands images, formulas, and tables like a human expert. PDFix now integrates with OpenAI – the world's…

Generate Table Summary (OpenAI)

Post August 14, 2025

Transform complex data tables in PDFs into accessible, screen reader-friendly content PDFix integrates with OpenAI API to automatically generate table summaries that enhance PDF/UA…

AutoTag PDF (Paddle)

Post August 14, 2025

Start Automating Accessibility with Paddle AI – 100% Local, 100% free solution that transforms PDF remediation with enterprise-grade accuracy, zero cloud dependency, and complete…

How to Make a PDF/UA-Compliant PDF in Minutes with PDFix Desktop

Post August 8, 2025

Making a PDF accessible doesn’t have to be complicated or time-consuming. Whether you’re meeting PDF/UA compliance requirements, following WCAG guidelines, or simply ensuring your…

Set Annotation Contents: Add Alternate Description to PDF Annotations

Post August 5, 2025

Creating an accessible PDF isn’t just about tagging text — it’s also about making sure every annotation, from highlights to form fields, has meaningful,…

Auto-Tag Thousands of Bank Statements and Invoices with Single PDFix Layout Template

Post July 31, 2025

Did you know that 72% of people handle financial PDF documents like bank statements and invoices every day – yet 41% report that more…

Set Content Color: Automatically Fix Low-Contrast Text in PDF

Post July 27, 2025

Low color contrast is one of the most common reasons PDFs fail accessibility audits, making documents difficult or impossible to read for users with…

ADA Title II Accessibility Deadlines for State & Local Governments – Is Your PDF Content Compliant?

Post July 20, 2025

The countdown has begun for state and local governments across the United States. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has finalized new Americans with Disabilities…

How Slovak Technical University Tackled PDF Accessibility with PDFix

Post July 10, 2025

Higher education institutions produce an enormous variety of PDF documents – everything from lecture materials and research papers to administrative forms and student resources.…

AI-Powered Batch Invoice Processing: Automate PDF/UA Compliance with PDFix

Post July 9, 2025

If your business produces thousands of invoices daily – in banking, insurance, finance, telecom, or the public sector – compliance with PDF/UA and WCAG,…

Smarter PDF Auto-Tagging for Accessibility with Paddle AI and PDFix

Post July 4, 2025

Generating accessible PDFs at scale just got faster and smarter. The latest release from PDFix introduces a Dockerized solution for automated PDF tagging, purpose-built…

New in PDFix: AI-Powered PDF Tagging, High-Volume Remediation & Template Logic

Post July 2, 2025

PDFix Desktop 2.4.0 is here — a powerful update that transforms PDF automation, layout recognition, and accessibility.Built for professionals who need precision, this release…

PDFix Launches Powerful New Template-Driven PDF Auto-Tagging

Post June 6, 2025

If you've ever had to manually tag hundreds of PDF documents for accessibility, you know it's tedious, time-consuming, and incredibly prone to human error.…

Automate PDF Accessibility Workflow in Minutes with PDFix Pipeline

Post March 31, 2025

Every organization faces unique document challenges, and the demand for accessible PDFs has never been greater. With strict standards like WCAG and PDF/UA, businesses…

Revolutionizing Accessibility: New Technical Rules for Accessible PDFs

Post March 10, 2025

Making PDFs accessible has long been a complex task – conflicting tagging methods, ambiguous structures, and a lack of clear guidance have left many…

How to Automate Alt Text Generation in PDFs Using PDFix and OpenAI

Post February 11, 2025

Did you know? According to the World Health Organization, over 2.2 billion people worldwide live with vision impairment. For them, images in PDFs without…

Make PDFs Accessible Faster: The Power of Automatic Language Detection

Post December 20, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad0Xg9gWglI One powerful tool that enhances PDF accessibility is automated language detection — the task of automatically detecting the language present in a PDF…

How to Manually Add Associated Headers

Post November 11, 2024

Welcome to this step-by-step guide on associating headers with table cells in complex tagged PDF tables. Properly defined table headers are essential for accessibility,…

PDFix Desktop 2.3 Release: What’s New!

Post October 29, 2024

PDFix Desktop 2.3.0 is here – delivering smarter, faster, and more reliable PDF automation.This update adds powerful new tools, workflow improvements, and fixes based…

The Challenges of Creating Accessible PDFs from Adobe InDesign

Post September 24, 2024

While Adobe InDesign is an industry-leading tool for producing visually stunning documents, it often falls short when it comes to generating fully accessible PDFs.…

Enhance PDF Accessibility with Auto-Tagging Templates

Post September 6, 2024

Have you ever had to redo accessibility work on a PDF that’s almost identical to one you’ve tackled before? If you’re working with documents…

Simplify PDF Accessibility with Auto-Tag API

Post August 9, 2024

Accessibility shouldn’t slow down development. The Auto-tag API, built on the PDFix SDK, brings automation to one of the hardest parts of PDF processing…

Explore Free Online PDF Accessibility Tools

Post July 19, 2024

Making PDFs accessible can be slow and repetitive. This guide shows how to use PDFix’s free web tools to validate against PDF/UA, auto-fix common…

Tackle PDF Accessibility Challenges with Custom Actions

Post May 24, 2024

Imagine having the power to customize your own arsenal of accessibility actions, tailored precisely to your set of documents, all within a single app.…

PDFix SDK 8.0 Release: What’s New!

Post May 14, 2024

Welcome to the PDFix SDK 8.0 release! We've been deep in development, behind the scene crafting commands that automate and turbocharge the entire process…

PDFix Desktop 2.0 Release: What’s New!

Post May 14, 2024

PDFix Desktop Pro 2.0 is here bringing next-level PDF automation, accessibility, and AI-powered remediation. This major release redefines how professionals handle batch PDF accessibility,…

Convert PDF to Responsive HTML: The Ultimate Solution For PDF Accessibility

Post April 11, 2024

In today’s fast-paced digital world, PDFs remain a popular format for their fixed layouts and consistency. However, as user expectations shift toward mobile-friendly and interactive content, the…

Explore PDF Remediation Tools: Join Our Online Session!

Post March 27, 2024

Discover the future of accessibility solutions! Get ready for an eye-opening PDFix session where we reveal the potential of our top-notch PDF accessibility software…

Digital Accessibility in USA: News and Deadlines 2024!

Post February 13, 2024

A new memorandum, M-24-08, released by the White House on digital accessibility is making waves in the United States, promising a better online experience…

PDFix Desktop 1.5: What’s New in Latest Release!

Post January 29, 2024

PDFix Desktop Pro 1.5 is here bringing smarter automation, faster processing, and better accessibility tools. This update enhances PDF conversion, data extraction, and auto-tagging,…

PDFix SDK 7.3.0: What’s New in Latest Release!

Post January 24, 2024

PDFix SDK 7.3.0 is here delivering smarter, faster, and more flexible PDF automation. This update brings Docker and NuGet support, an enhanced Template Layout…

VeraPDF: Industry-Supported PDF/UA Validation

Post January 17, 2024

One of the standout players in the accessibility testing of digital documents is VeraPDF, an industry-supported PDF validator designed to verify compliance with PDF/UA…

Your Guide To PDF Accessibility In Education

Post October 26, 2023

Higher education has never been more diverse. Accessibility is about breaking down barriers for everyone to participate. Inclusive teaching ensures every student can join…

PDFix SDK & Desktop Release

Post October 2, 2023

PDFix SDK 7.1 and PDFix Desktop Pro 1.4 are here, bringing smarter accessibility, faster performance, and easier automation. The latest release focuses on enhancing…

PDF Accessibility Checker For Web Accessibility

Post August 21, 2023

These days, website accessibility is a hot topic, and for good reason – legal requirements and the push for inclusivity. But while we’re busy…

An Organization-Wide PDF Accessibility Solution

Post July 14, 2023

Many companies and organizations are increasingly discussing the importance of PDF accessibility. They recognize that ensuring high-quality, inclusive content while handling a large volume…

PDFix Desktop Pro License Activation

Post May 30, 2023

PDFix Desktop Pro is a cross-platform PDF processing tool for desktop. First, check the system requirements to avoid any problems with installing and running PDFix…

European Accessibility Act 2025: Are your PDFs ready?

Post May 26, 2023

As of June 28, 2025, the European Accessibility Act (EAA) applies to new products and services in the EU. If your customer communications, invoices,…

Automatically Generate Alternate Text for Images

Post May 12, 2023

When you open a PDF filled with graphs, product images, or scanned figures, it is easy to forget that not every reader can see…

Auto-Tag a PDF with DeepDoctection

Post May 12, 2023

Millions of PDFs are generated every day, but most are not accessible and fail PDF/UA or WCAG compliance. Manual tagging is slow, inconsistent, and…

How Can AI Assist PDF Accessibility?

Post May 12, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been one of the most captivating and widely discussed technologies of the current decade, owing to its ability to mimic…

Tutorial: How to Make PDF Tables Accessible

Post April 25, 2023

Making tables accessible is one of the biggest challenges in PDF remediation. Screen readers need properly defined headers, rows, and cells to interpret table…

New ISO Standards

Post April 13, 2023

ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0) About PDF Format PDF format has come a long way since it was first developed in 1993. Defined by an…

How to Batch Process Multiple PDF Files for Accessibility

Post January 28, 2023

If you've been using PDFix to tag documents, validate, convert, or extract data, you already know how efficient it makes each task. But what…

How to Extract Data from PDF

Post January 25, 2023

In today's digital age, the ability to repurpose data from your PDF files is essential. Whether you need to copy and paste simple text…

Tutorial: Fixing Table Tags in PDF

Post January 24, 2023

Correct table tagging is essential for PDF accessibility. Screen readers depend on proper structure (<TR>, <TH>, <TD>) and attributes like scope to read tables…

How to Fix Incorrectly Tagged PDF

Post January 23, 2023

In today's digital landscape, incorrect tagging of PDF documents can impact their accessibility. When addressing poorly tagged PDFs, options include deleting tags and reapplying…

How to Manually Tag a PDF for Accessibility

Post December 18, 2022

If you’ve ever opened a PDF with a screen reader and heard nothing but chaos, you already know why accessibility tagging is critical. Without…

Fixing PDF Validation Errors: Metadata

Post December 10, 2022

If you want a properly validated PDF that complies with the accessibility standards, you first need to ensure that all validation errors are fixed.…

Fixing Validation Errors: Image

Post December 2, 2022

If you want a properly validated PDF that complies with the accessibility standards, you first need to ensure that all validation errors are fixed.…

Fixing PDF Validation Errors: Link Failures

Post November 28, 2022

If you want a properly validated PDF that complies with the accessibility standards, you first need to ensure that all validation errors are fixed.…

How to Automatically Tag a PDF: A Quick Guide.

Post November 9, 2022

Making PDFs accessible doesn’t have to be complicated. With PDFix Desktop, you can automatically tag PDFs using built-in AI recognition — turning unstructured files…

Your Guide to PDF Validation

Post November 9, 2022

Ensuring your PDF documents are accessible to everyone is more than good practice – it’s a compliance requirement. Standards like PDF/UA and WCAG define…

A Complete Guide: How to Convert PDF to HTML

Post November 2, 2022

In today's digital age, HTML has become a preferred format for document storage and sharing. With PDFix, converting your PDF to HTML is quick…

PDFix Desktop Beta

Post June 7, 2022

PDFix desktop application isn’t just an ordinary pdf editor with tagging capabilities. Powered by our SDK, PDFix is a complex solution for validating, remediating, and…

Extract Data from PDF

Post October 4, 2020

In today’s modern world, data are a driver of growth and change. The amount of data we’re now generating is growing at unprecedented rates…

The PDFix Command-Line Utility

Post November 26, 2019

In PDFix we enable simple, fast and automated PDF processing through the command-line interface. PDFix command-line allows developers and advanced computer users an easy…

Custom PDF Solutions with the PDFix SDK

Post February 18, 2019

PDF is the most important content carrier on the web (excluding HTML of course). Over 80% of the content online that is not HTML…

PDFix SDK for Python has just been released!

Post November 11, 2018

As it is well known, Python is a general-purpose language, sometimes referred to as utilitarian, which is designed to be simple to read and…

Scrape PDF Data Easily with PDFix SDK

Post October 18, 2018

Automated web scraping services provide fast data acquirement in structured format. No matter if used for big data, data mining, artificial intelligence, machine learning…

Attending ODSC Europe 2018 in London

Post September 26, 2018

“Open Data Science Conference (OSDC) has become a must-go event in Data Science and Machine Learning, as it continuously strived to deliver a smooth event,…

PDF Form Filling directly in a Web Browser?

Post July 2, 2018

PDF Form (AcroForm) is a PDF document that contains form fields, which can be filled and saved for further processing. The fields can be…

How to Make PDF Document Responsive?

Post June 14, 2018

Many developers and users are wondering, "How can I make a PDF document responsive?" Responsive layouts and text reflow have become standard over the…

GDPR and Personal Data in PDF

Post June 6, 2018

Does this privacy and protection include the coverage of PDF files that also contain the personal data? How to access and process Personal Data? The GDPR – European General Data Protection Regulation is…

PDF Days Europe 2018

Post April 10, 2018

The world’s most popular PDF event will be happening from May 14th – 16th in Berlin. A chance get in touch with PDF industry.…

Memories of PDF Days Europe 2017

Post October 3, 2017

Our CEO, Jozef Baranec was sharing our experiences, concerns and roadblocks when implementing PDF in web environment with wide audience of PDF experts in…

Tagged PDF

Post October 3, 2017

Vast majority of PDFs that exist and are created daily are not tagged or are not tagged properly and provide just visual representation of…

We are not alone

Post March 29, 2017

We are not alone in our revolution and things are happening as we speak. We started our mission with idea of responsiveness in PDF…

The Magic of Data hidden in a PDF

Post January 1, 2017

It’s a common myth that the PDF is the final format of a document, where the data and content can only be rendered on…

PDF Responsive Revolution

Post January 1, 2017

We all dislike reading PDF documents on our smartphones. Pinch in, pinch out, scroll around, and attempt to read what was originally designed to…