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Comment on PDF Trends 2026 Q2: Analysis of 20.6M PDFs from Common Crawl

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What methodology did you use?

For each PDF we extracted:

basic metadata: page count file size creation and modification dates PDF version (including Version entry in the document catalog) producer and creator encryption information and permissions annotations presence of interactive forms presence of optional content layers presence of digital signatures image only (scanned) pages Tagged PDF information: stats on the use of structure element types logical structure tree validation against ISO 32005

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