PDF/H was released in 2008. As indicated by the H designator, this format is designed for use in the healthcare industry and is not an ISO standard.

PDF/H incorporates a number of best-practice recommendations for the healthcare sector, which were compiled by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), Adobe and an American business consortium. The objective: provide a trusted means of facilitating the capture, exchange, preservation and protection of information within the healthcare system.

OCR as time goes by: The first machine-readable font was developed for the American government 45 years ago. Much has changed in the world of OCR technology from that time until today.

1968 was a revolutionary year - not just in the sense of political upheaval, but in the history of the computer as well. Douglas C. Engelbart invented the computer mouse, the precursor of the personal computer hit the market, and electronic data processing was slowly gaining in popularity and demand.

Information about the geometry of a PDF document plays an enormously important role in the printing industry

Unlike the PDF/A format, which does not explicitly include printing related requirements, the PDF/X standard requires that information about the page's geometry be specified using page boxes. One of the things these boxes define is where on a page the content is placed that corresponds to the desired final trimmed size. The bleed is also marked at the same time. At present, desktop publishing (DTP) programs automatically set the information needed for this in the PDF during direct export.