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Can I trust a PDF validation software?

If you use validation software from different manufacturers you sometimes get different results. Why can this happen? Does it mean that you can’t trust the software? What can you do about it? We hear these and more questions very often and we can understand the user’s concerns. In this article we try to shed some light on the mysteries of PDF validation. Read which checks a PDF Validator does perform in our Expert Blog.
Nadine Schuppisser

Nadine Schuppisser
September 2, 2014

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If you use validation software from different manufacturers you sometimes get different results. Why can this happen? Does it mean that you can't trust the software? What can you do about it? We hear these and more questions very often and we can understand the user's concerns. In this article we try to shed some light on the mysteries of PDF validation.

Read which checks a PDF Validator does perform in our Expert Blog.


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