Datalogics is proud to announce a major achievement by our engineering team - becoming the second organization to contribute Brotli-encoded PDFs to the PDF Association for interoperability testing! Brotli is a standardized compression algorithm developed by Google, initially for Web Fonts, that could significantly improve compression within PDF files. Because of our work with PDFOptimizer technology, Datalogics is keenly aware of the demand for greater compression within PDF files and is happy to be working with its peers in the PDF Association to help push for next-generation compression in next-generation improvements to the PDF specification.

Brotli is a lossless compression scheme that builds upon well-known LZ77 and Huffman coding compression algorithms.  One key feature of Brotli is a precomputed static dictionary that can be thought of as a "one-size-fits-most" decoder ring that can compress well a wide variety of data streams, but this decoder ring is shared by all and doesn't need to be included in each stream. This reduces the decoding overhead that would otherwise need to be part of the compressed stream and thus is part of what allows Brotli to compress better than comparable compression methods. The hope for our engineering team and Datalogics as a whole is that working with Brotli will eventually result in customers being able to compress their PDFs smaller, with the myriad of benefits that brings. Therefore, once Brotli is standardized for use within PDF, our tools will be ready to make and process such files.

Stay tuned for more updates regarding this exciting advancement in PDF compression! 

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