Welcome to the homepage of the PDF/A Competence Center, a cooperation between numerous world-leading companies and experts in PDF technology. The aim of the PDF/A Competence Center is to promote the exchange of information and experience in the area of long-term archiving in accordance with ISO 19005: PDF/A

To put it simply - PDF/A is an ISO Standard for using PDF format for the long-term archiving of electronic documents. And what does this actually mean? Read more here...

The “Isartor test suite for PDF/A-1b (Version 1.0; August 2008)”, developed by PDF/A Competence Center, is now available for download. This test suite comprises a set of files which can be used to check the conformance of software regarding the PDF/A-1 standard. It can be used to “validate the validators”. Overview page…

PDF/A Competence Center experts have prepared several articles providing detailed background knowledge about a diversity of questions dealing with PDF/A. The following subjects have been addressed as a start, more will follow: “PDF/A - a look at the technical side”, “PDF/A for Scanned Documents”, “Improved PDF/A-1b”, and “PDF/A Metadata – XMP, RDF & Dublin Core”. Overview page…

Are there already companies that have begun implementing PDF/A? Do existing archives, e.g. TIFF-based, have to be migrated to PDF/A? What tools are recommended for specific functions and features? Are the existing tools mature enough to be relied on? The supplier of my archiving system doesn’t offer PDF/A support yet - what can I do?

These and other questions can be discussed and debated in the PDF/A Competence Center’s Discussion Forum. Register yourself now in the PDF/A Discussion Forum and exchange ideas and experiences with other users and manufacturers.