The fast and easy way to produce PDF/A (ISO 19005-1) compliant files or validate a PDF file against the PDF/A specification.

PDF/A Manager is a PDF/A (ISO 19005-1) validation and conversion software. It is available as a command-line tool and as a development toolkit.

The conversion option analyses the content of existing PDF files and performs a sequence of modifications in order to produce a PDF/A compliant document. Features that are not suitable for long-term archiving (such as encryption, obsolete compression schemes, missing fonts, or device-dependent color) are replaced with their PDF/A compliant equivalents. Because the conversion process applies only necessary changes to the source file, the information loss is minimal. Also, because the converter provides a detailed report for each change, it is simple to inspect changes and to determine whether the conversion loss is acceptable.

The validation option in PDF/A Manager can be used to quickly determine whether a PDF file fully complies with the PDF/A specification according to the international standard ISO 19005-1. For files that are not compliant, the validation option can be used to produce a detailed report of compliance violations as well as a list of relevant error objects.

PDF/A Manager SDK

For developers who are looking for a software development component to integrate into their application, PDFTron also offers PDF/A Manager SDK, an easy-to-use, yet powerful software component for embedding into client and server based applications.

PDF/A Manager SDK consists of a simple-to-use API for PDF to PDF/A conversion and PDF/A validation. The SDK is available as a plain "C DLL" and can be easily accessed from any programming language (including C#, VB.NET, C/C++, Java, VB6, Perl, Python, Ruby, Delphi, etc).

The entire API consists of only two functions and is very easy to use.

PDF/A Manager is based on PDFNet SDK, PDFTron's own core technology. PDFNet SDK is a comprehensive developer library for PDF creation, conversion, manipulation and rendering, offered on a wide range of platforms and programming environments. If you require PDF/A support as well as other PDF processing functionality, you can use PDFNet SDK with the PDF/A Add-on.

For all PDFNet SDK Core and Add-on features, please check out the PDFNet Feature Chart or contact us for more information.

Platforms currently supported:

• Windows 7, 2008, Vista, XP, 2003, 2000, NT, 98
• Mac OSX
• Linux