# PDF

>[Portable Document Format (PDF)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

This covers how to load `PDF` documents into the Document format that we use downstream.

import Example from "@snippets/modules/data_connection/document_loaders/how_to/pdf.mdx"

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