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PDF/A is an ISO-standardized version of the Portable Document Format (PDF) specialized for the digital preservation of electronic documents.

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

We write a software that create PDF files. How we can check if the resulting pdf files are PDF/A compatible? Are there any test suite for it available?
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How to use ghostscript to convert PDF to PDF/A or PDF/X?

Is there a way to use ghostscript to convert PDF to PDF/A or PDF/X? I know it can be used to convert PDF to images, but I don't know if it can be used to convert PDF/A. What parameters should I use?
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How to create a PDF/A from command line with Libre Office Draw in headless mode?

LibreOffice Draw allows you to open a non PDF/A file and export this a PDF/A-1b or PDF/A-2b file. The same is possible from the command line by calling on macOS /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice --headless \ --convert-to…
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How can I export report to PDF/A-1a, PDF/A-1b?

Generating PDF/A in jasper-report, contains numerous pitfalls and is not supported in some versions of jasper-report. This is why I have decided to pass this Question-Answer post, indicating the steps and library version necessary to export a simple…
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Add xmp extension schema with itext to be PDF/A compliant

I am looking for a working iText version 5.5.4 example to add a custom metadata value myProp with content like My metadata to a PDF document. We can't use existing schemas like DC for this case. Thanks in advance.
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How to check PDF-A 1b compliance with open source tools?

How can i check (and additionally create) PDF-A 1b compliant PDF documents using open source tools? Does anybody know an open source tool? Thanks in advance...
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NodeJS - Generate PDF/A compliant document

Current Setup I have an Angular app that takes in user inputs and passes that data to a NodeJS service which then generates a PDF. I'm currently making use of the pdfmake package. Requirement The above package doesn't create a PDF/A document.…
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PDF/A-1a: OutputIntents for Black and White Images

I'm attempting to create a PDF/A-1a compliant file that only contains a black and white image (i.e. CCITTFaxD). I'm running into trouble with the "OutputIntents". I basically can't find an outputintent that's made for 1-bit images. Does anyone know…
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PDFbox - How to test & adjust a PDF to match PDF/A compliance in Java

In Java, I would like to be able to read in a PDF file, test whether it is PDF/A (PDF for Archiving) compliant, and if not, then convert the file to PDF/A. I might prefer this in Apache PDFBox because I've been doing a few things in that API…
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Convert PDF to PDF/A3 or PDF/A-1 to PDF/A-3

I'm testing iTextSharp to generate ZUGFeRD-Files. My first step was to generate a ZUGFeRD conform file from an existing PDF/A-3 file. This was successfull by using PDFACopy and creating the necessary PDFFileSpecification. The next step would be to…
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Checking if a PDF is PDF/A 1-a format or not using PDFBOX in java

I have to check if a pdf file is in PDF/A 1-a format or not using pdfbox or any other free library in java . I have searched a lot on google in this regard but still i couldnt get any code or technique for doing this. How can I check this in java .
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How to concatenate two pdfs and retain bookmarks and pdf/a compliance using pdfbox?

Code: /** * Creates a * cited document from the given bitstream of the given item. This * requires that bitstream is contained in item. *

* The Process for adding a cover page is as follows: *

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Can iTextSharp convert PDF document to PDF/A

I cannot locate within the FAQ whether this functionality exists in the API although its mentioned in a book as something that is potentially available. Has anyone had any experience implementing this feature?
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Is there an R 4.2.1 pdf/a compliant pdf output device?

When creating a simple graphic via Cairo, > library("Cairo") > pdf(file="pdf1.pdf") > plot( 1:10, 1:10, type="b") > dev.off() null device 1 > library("Cairo") > CairoPDF(file="pdf1.pdf") > plot( 1:10, 1:10, type="b") > dev.off() null…
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How extract text from this compressed PDF/A?

For machine learning purposes (sckit-learn), I need to extract the raw text from lots of PDF files. First off, I was using xpdf pdftotext to do this task: exe = r'"'+os.path.join(xpdf_path,"pdftotext.exe")+'"' cmd = exe+" "+"\""+pdf+"\""+"…
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