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Introducing the Computable Document Format (CDF)

Today's online documents are like yesterday's paper—flat, lifeless, inactive. Instead, CDF puts easy-to-author interactivity at its core, empowering readers to drive content and generate results live.

Launched by the Wolfram Group, the CDF standard is a computation-powered knowledge container—as everyday as a document, but as interactive as a knowledge app.

Adopting CDF gives ideas a broad communication pipeline—accelerating research, education, technical development, and progress.

Why CDF?

Why Use the Computable Document Format (CDF)?

CDF offers content creators easy-to-author interactivity and convenient deployment options—empowering their readers to drive content and generate results live.

Key Advantages of CDF:

  • Broader communication pipeline:
    Create content as everyday as a document, but as interactive as an knowledge app.
  • Built-in computation:
    Let the reader drive new discovery — live.
  • Easy-to-author interactivity:
    Use automated functions and plain English input instead of specialist programming skills for a wide range of applications.
  • Deployment flexibility:
    Create once—deploy as slide shows, reports, books, applications, and web objects.
  • Integrated knowledge:
    Access specialized algorithms, data, and visualizations for hundreds of subjects.