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Universal Document™ Incorporated is the standards body behind Universal Document™ — an open, free, and AI-native document format designed as the modern successor to PDF, DOCX, and the image formats pressed into service as document delivery mechanisms.
Our mission is public-good infrastructure: a document format free to use, free to implement, and built to serve governments, healthcare systems, enterprises, courts, and organizations worldwide. The specification is open. The tools are free. The iSDK carries no licensing cost, no royalty, and no attribution requirement.
Free tools for every stage of the Universal Document™ lifecycle. Read .uds and .udr files, convert from any format, create from scratch, validate integrity, sign with full audit trail.
iSDK: embed Universal Document™ read/render in any device or app. Free forever. Under 400KB. No attribution. cSDK: API access to creation, conversion, signing, and validation for builders.
Universal Document™ Standard 1.0 — the open format specification. CC BY 4.0. Free to implement. Working paper available on SSRN.
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