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The analysis provides a large-scale view of how PDF technology is used across the public web and establishes a foundation for future reports on PDF in general with focus on Tagged PDF, PDF/UA adoption, and accessibility trends.

The final dataset contains:

20,578,394 PDF documents approximately 38 TB of source data

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