PDFs are to modern businesses what faxes once were to companies operating in the 1980s. They provide a convenient way to not only send documents to colleagues and customers but also facilitate easy ...

Like the GIF (that's Graphics Interchange Format), the PDF (Portable Document Format) has survived and flourished through the digital age. That's partly because of its versatility: It's the go-to ...

PDFs were designed to be a universal, easy-to-read document format, and they serve that purpose well. If you have a collection of images—say, documents you scanned into your computer as JPEGs—you can ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. If you’ve ever downloaded a scanned document, you know the frustration that comes with trying to ...