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PDF Full Form and it's Uses

 

What is the Full form of PDF?

So the word PDF stands for Portable Document Format.

P – Portable
D – Document
F – Format

PDF full form
PDF full form

PDF is established by the company named Adobe in 1993. As you know Adobe is a multinational IT company. Which works to develop hardware and software. PDF Full Form

PDF is portable and every operating system can deal with it in a similar way. You can read PDF in any type of operating system like Windows, Linux, ubuntu, android, and so on.

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The extension of the PDF for the file is .pdf. Any PDF reader application or software  If you want to read a PDF file, your first need is a PDF reader. There are many PDF reader applications and software are available on the internet. 

A billion people use PDF for many reasons. Some of those use for business purposes and some of those use for education purposes.

Types of PDF files

There are three main types of PDF file as follows – 

1. Digitally made PDF – Suppose you created a document or Word file or Excel shit and you save as file as PDF. Or you save a File using the print feature and save a file as PDF makes your file digitally made PDF file. You can easily edit these types of files. You can also search the text in these files.

2. Scanned PDF – You have a hard copy of the image or document. If you want to make its PDF, simply scan it with a scanner or capture a photo of that document and create PDF. You can not edit those types of files. You can not search in its text.

3. Searchable PDF – This PDF file also images only PDF file but you can search in its text because this PDF has made using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) application. This type of PDF has two-layered text that’s why it allows searching text.


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