Re: Durability of PDFs

From: Lars Aronsson <lars_at_nyob>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 04:31:40 +0200
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Benjamin O'Steen wrote:

> The easiest way to create these at the moment, is to use OpenOffice 3
> and choose the "Save As PDF" and tick the PDF/A option.

Is there some free software that can verify if a given PDF file 
really is a valid PDF/A file?  If I want users to upload their 
documents to an archival webserver, I don't want them to upload 
bad files that aren't standards compliant and safe for the future. 

The web server needs to run a check, hopefully in less than a 
second and using predictable amounts of RAM.

Or how do you typically solve that problem?

Can PDF/A documents contain scanned images with OCR text?


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  Lars Aronsson (lars_at_aronsson.se)
  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
Received on Wed Jul 01 2009 - 22:43:58 EDT