How can I test a PDF document if it is PDF/A compliant?
ValidationPdfTest SuitePdfaValidation Problem Overview
We write a software that create PDF files. How we can check if the resulting pdf files are PDF/A compatible? Are there any test suite for it available?
Validation Solutions
Solution 1 - Validation
A list of PDF/A validators is on the pdfa.org web site here:
A free online PDF/A validator is available here:
A report on the accuracy of many of these PDF/A validators is available from PDFLib:
Se as well:
Solution 2 - Validation
The 3-Heights™ PDF Validator Online Tool provides good feedback for different PDF/A conformance levels and versions.
- PDF/A1-a
- PDF/A2-a
- PDF/A2-b
- PDF/A1-b
- PDF/A2-u
Solution 3 - Validation
pdf validation with OPEN validator:
DROID (Digital Record Object Identification) http://sourceforge.net/projects/droid/
JHOVE - JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/
Solution 4 - Validation
Do you have Adobe PDFL or Acrobat Professional? You can use preflight operation if you do.
Solution 5 - Validation
If you download the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader, it will tell you if your pdf is PDF/A compliant. Just open the PDF file and a big blue marking should appear.
OpenOffice supports PDF/A. For some reason "PDF/A-1" is called
"SelectPdfVersion"internally in OpenOffice. Just add 1 to that value and your output should be PDF/A.
The different values can be
0 = PDFXNONE
1 = PDFX1A2001
2 = PDFX32002
3 = PDFA1A
4 = PDFA1B
You set
FilterDatato be a
HashMap('SelectPdfVersion',1) //1 for PDFX1A2001