[wombatmobile]

The internet already has this. It's called HTML.

[tkzed49]

Liquid mode? It looks like a tool to reflow the content in existing PDFs, which are often intentionally not responsive. I don't see how this is similar to HTML.

[wombatmobile]

The AI is required to reconstruct text order in legacy PDF files. Once you have the text, why wouldn't you render it in HTML?

[random3]

Sadly, without something like CSS Regions (https://caniuse.com/css-regions) the internet has limited rendering capabilities. CSS Regions was led by Adobe but dumped by Google with Blink (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/googl...)

[Gys]

A standard that is too open ;-)

Better have an alternative that is controlled by one company. Shareholders like that. Think social media, ads, apps.

[munk-a]

PDFs can do all sorts of voodoo (like you can do with HTML if you hate the user's browser) to make legible content that is pretty illegible to machines - but most documents are produced by tools that have pretty sane outputs that can be reverse parsed to get a pretty nice HTML blob.

[tkzed49]

PDF is an ISO standard. PDF 2.0 has no proprietary components.

[Gys]

Pretty sure their 'AI reflow' is something that is not (nor will be) in the standard

[tkzed49]

yes, because it's a tool in Adobe Reader and not part of PDF.