LawVu logo

The mysteries of PDF, solved.

  • September 17th, 2026, 11am ET / 4pm BST
Convert to your timezone

Lawyers live in two file formats. You understand Word. PDF just resists.

Why can’t you edit it? Why does copied text arrive with broken lines and stray hyphens? Why is one PDF searchable and the next may as well be a photograph? Why did that converted Word file land looking like a ransom note?

None of it is random. Once you understand why PDFs behave the way they do, most of the frustration stops being a mystery and becomes a solvable problem.

In 45 minutes, we’ll show you what’s actually happening inside a PDF, then work through the situations you hit daily: getting a clean Word file out of a counterparty’s PDF, editing when you need to and locking down when you don’t, redacting so it actually holds, and using PDF-files together with AI tools.

You’ll be able to:

  • Tell in seconds whether a PDF is real text or a picture of text, and why that one distinction explains many PDF problems
  • Convert PDFs to clean MS Word files
  • Redact in a way that survives scrutiny
  • And more!
Speakers
Maarten Truyens
Legal Software Engineer, LawVu
Senne Mennes
Solutions Consultant, LawVu