PDF and data: collecting case studies

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1	Collecting case studies for how PDFs can work better with data
2	In support of the W3C Community on PDFs and Open Data -- https://www.w3.org/community/pdf-open-data/
3	Link to this spreadsheet	https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bwLQSU0ewUbfleWvtrS1xJrGMDb4d5Ky0ITEV04LHB4/edit?usp=sharing
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5	Use-cases where documents could help
6	I am a	I use PDFs for	I would like PDFs to work better with data by	This would let me	I need the following people to help me	My system (proposed or current) uses the following features of PDF	Case study URL
7	Scientist	Storing my papers	Having supplemantary files attached to them, having metadata embedded in them, containing annotation and notes from me and my research group.	Have a single PDF file for everything, instead of a confusion of linked files and non-standard reference manager databases.	Scientific publishers and authors of reference managers.	XMP for metadata, Attachments for files, Annotations.	http://tomforth.co.uk/scienceandpdfs/
8	Town planner	Storing documents generated by required consultations and planning processes.	Including the data that we are using to make decisions and including the data that citizens are using to respond to our consultations	Include data within the existing planning process, making it more informed by the realities on the ground and by citizen opinions based on this. PDFs are important because they are required within our current workflow.	The authors of our current planning management portals	Attachments for files.	http://tomforth.co.uk/pdfforplanners/
9	Accountant or small business	Invoicing	Having data files eInvoicing embedded in them, so that human-readable invoices can also be machine-readable	Achieve greatly increased adoption of eInvoicing by mixing machine-readable and human-readable content through structured content.	Other eInvoicing platforms continue to mark-up their eInvoice PDFs properly.	Structured content within PDFs.	https://www.cloudtradenetwork.com/
10	Bank or utility company	Sending out statements or bills.	Containing data files corresponding to the content of the statesments and bills.	Meet users' needs for printable documents (for records, and identification purposes) and machine-readable data (to comply with data-portability requirements of GDPR etc...) in a single document.	I could this myself	Attachments for files, or structured content within PDFs.
11	App developer	Creating reports of my app progress	Letting me embed the data that powers my reports.	Both deliver a user-readable update on how my app is being used.	I have used PDFAttacher to add data to my existing PDFs	Attachments for files.	https://datamillnorth.org/dataset/leeds-bins-app-record-of-lookups
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13	Use-cases where documents shouldn't play a role.
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15	I am a	I use PDFs for	I should do this instead.
16	Government official	Printing spreadsheets to, for release on open data portals or in reponse to FOIs.	Release the spreadsheet. (as a CSV, XLSX, or similar)
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