How can I test a PDF document if it is PDF/A compl

Question

We write a software that create PDF files. How we can check if the resulting pdf files are PDF/A compatibility? Are there any test suite for it available?

It will be also nice to know if some other product like Open-Office produce PDF/A compatibility files.

Answer 1

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/

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

A list of PDF/A validators is on the pdfa.org web site here:

verapdf

A free online PDF/A validator is available here:

http://www.validatepdfa.com/

A report on the accuracy of many of these PDF/A validators is available from PDFLib:

https://www.pdflib.com/fileadmin/pdflib/pdf/pdfa/2009-05-04-Bavaria-report-on-PDFA-validation-accuracy.pdf

Se as well:

https://www.pdflib.com/knowledge-base/pdfa/

Answer 4

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

FilterData

to be a

HashMap('SelectPdfVersion',1) //1 for PDFX1A2001

Answer 5

Do you have Adobe PDFL or Acrobat Professional? You can use preflight operation if you do.