Tag Archives: conformance

3-Heights™ PDF Validator

PDF Tools AG | December 2, 2011

The 3-Heights™ PDF Validator safeguards the quality of PDF documents and the processes that create them. Documents are checked for compliance with the ISO standards for PDF and PDF/A documents. PDF is a widespread format; it is therefore important that interoperability is ensured. Documents containing information of relevance to business or intended for archiving, in particular, need to be validated with regard to their correctness and long-term legibility. This is precisely what the Validator does, whether for a single document or an entire batch. [...]

Office2PDFA

MAY Computer GmbH | August 29, 2011

With Office2PDFA an application was developed to automatically convert Microsoft Office documents (e.g. MS-Office 2003 or MS-Office 2007) to the ISO conform PDF/A document format for long term archiving. [...]

ScanSoft PDF Create! 7

Nuance Communications GmbH | August 29, 2011

Offers the creation of PDF/A conform files from practically all desktop applications. [...]

Isartor Test Suite

PDF Association | August 3, 2011

This test suite comprises a set of files which can be used to check the conformance of software regarding the PDF/A-1 standard. More precisely, the Isartor test suite can be used to “validate the validators”: It deliberately violates the requirements of PDF/A-1 in a systematic way in order to check whether PDF/A-1 validation software actually finds the violations. [...]

Isartor Test Suite (Terms of Use & Download)

PDF/A Competence Center | August 3, 2011

The Isartor test suite is available from www.pdfa.org free of charge. It can be used to check PDF validation software and software vendors can use it to “certify” that their products conform in full or in part to the Isartor test suite. A detailed list of test results must be made available as part of the declaration.
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PDF/A: Validating the Validators

PDF/A Competence Center | March 4, 2011

The “Bavaria report” is a comparative review of PDF/A validators. It assesses the output of 7 PDF/A validation tools for conforming and non-conforming documents in the hope of providing guidelines for users and encouraging vendors of PDF/A validation tools to optimize their products. [...]

PDF/UA Introduced at ATIA

PDF/UA Competence Center | October 28, 2010

The budding standard, targeted toward software developers, identifies elements in the PDF standard relevant to accessibility, specifies valid implementation of such elements in conforming files, and specifies requirements for conforming PDF readers and for conforming Assistive Technology (AT). [...]