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2025-04-23 17-28-34
Vitor Mata
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PDF/A validation - does it exists?
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Hi all,

Do you know any component/utility or a way to validate if a PDF document is PDF/A compliant, that doesn't involve sending the document via API or submit it to an external service to validate?

I've already looked for it without success and even opening the document and searching for specific strings like conformance:"A" or schema:"PDF/A" don't assure that a document is really PDF/A.


Thanks in advance

Regards

Vitor

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21 Sep 2023
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2020-09-15 13-07-23
Kilian Hekhuis
 
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Hi Vitor,

Testing a PDF file for PDF/A compliance is so incredibly difficult, that there's a special consortium, veraPDF, funded by the EU, that has built sofware to test compliance. They took about two years, with an entire team (funded by EU millions, so go figure). There's software available for testing, but I don't think it's available in the form of a library you can link to.

So to sum up, I don't think what you want is possible.

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2025-04-23 17-28-34
Vitor Mata

Hi Kilian,

Thanks for your input.

That's exactly what i was afraid of: having to use a third party to do this validation..


Best regards


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