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Facing a pandemic: hit and miss of PDF, how could we have done better?

France had one of the most restrictive laws during the pandemic. Long before vaccine passports were available, people had to fill out, sign, and carry certificates when they left their homes. In addition, while PDF was the electronic file format available by default, the government was using a basic, outdated version of it. The experience has gradually improved over time, but people often had to navigate between paper and electronic documents before QR codes and apps. This presentation will look at how different countries have used PDF during the pandemic. We’ll see how the combination of a better understanding of the PDF features and easy-to-use solutions for all devices accelerated digital transition.

Smart Legal Contracts and PDF

Smarter contracts and blockchain technologies are already transforming business processes across commercial, legal and financial sectors and yet “We still approach contracts in much the same way as we have done for centuries. Decades old software such as PDF and Microsoft Word is used to create and store agreements in a digital format, but they are basically digital copies of paper documents. This fails to take advantage of technology that allows for dynamic data access and streamlined contracting.” (Source: UK Lawtech)

This session will explore the new technologies that are transforming legal contracts and discuss what the PDF community should do to ensure that the format has a future in this new era:

• What are Smart Legal Contracts?
• Crypto-assets and Cryptocurrencies
• Distributed Ledger Technologies
  • Blockchain
  • Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
  • Interplanetary File System (IPFS)
  • Smart Contracts
• Contrasting “Smart Contracts” and “Smart Legal Contracts”
  • Data Models for Contracts
  • Machine Readable, Data Rich and Collaborative
  • In-browser visualization
• Case Studies
  • Contract Automation and Management
  • Electronic Trade Documents
• Digital Representation and Ownership of Physical Assets
  • The future of PDF and Smart Legal Contracts
  • PDF Myths and Capabilities
  • Opportunities for the PDF Community

How document understanding can leverage your PDF workflow

Document understanding is a constantly addressed topic and has become on top of the scene these last years with Deep Learning and NLP evolution. The PDF format is by nature unstructured, which implies sophisticated processes to extract and qualify information from such documents.

In this presentation, we will discuss four ways to address challenges brought by PDF (which are: layout & text understanding, hierarchy & relationships between the different structures):

• Layout analysis,
• OCR,
• Textual content key-value association,
• Natural language processing.

We will then discuss the many fields of applications of such technologies, including OCR, automatic indexing, tagging & labeling, structured layout conversion, and automatic redaction.