New PDF/A validator

We’re happy to announce our new** PDFA validator**, available with the latest release(opens in a new tab).

Why is it important to validate PDF/A files?

Long term archiving is a critical requirement for many industries.

Because of the complexity of PDF document format, it is very important to validate if all the PDF/A specification requirements are met.

To be certain that the files created by the GdPicture.NET PDF/A converter engine are compliant with the PDF/A ISO standard (ISO 19005), we have developed a PDF/A validator.

The GdPicture.NET PDF/A Validator Features

The GdPicture.NET PDF/A validator provides conformance validation for all PDF/A versions:

• PDF/A-1 (ISO 19005-1:2005)
• PDF/A-2 (ISO 19005-2:2011)
• PDF/A-3 (ISO 19005-3:2012)

It automatically determines the claimed conformance of the document.

It provides both a basic validation result or a detailed machine-readable report (XML).

The engine analyses and validates the following elements:

• PDF structure
• lexical, syntactic, and semantic levels
• metadata
• fonts
• color space
• other properties

How to use the GdPicture.NET PDF/A validator?

The ValidatePDFA Method (GdPicturePDF) validates the currently loaded PDF document against the specified PDF/A standard and provides a validation report.

Here is an example on how to validate if the document conforms to the PDF/A-2b requirements:

C# using (GdPicturePDF oGdPicturePDF = new GdPicturePDF()) { string caption = "Example: ValidatePDFA"; GdPictureStatus status = oGdPicturePDF.LoadFromFile("test.pdf", false); if (status == GdPictureStatus.OK) { bool ConformsToRequestedStandard = false; string XMLReport = string.Empty; status = oGdPicturePDF.ValidatePDFA(PdfValidationConformance.PDF_A_2b, ref ConformsToRequestedStandard, ref XMLReport); if (status == GdPictureStatus.OK) { if(ConformsToRequestedStandard) { MessageBox.Show("The PDF document does conform to the PDF/A-2b standard.", caption); } else { MessageBox.Show("The PDF document does not conform to the PDF/A-2b standard. Refer to the XML Report for further details.", caption); } } else { MessageBox.Show("Error occured durring the document validation process. Status: " + status.ToString(), caption); } } else { MessageBox.Show("The file can't be loaded. Status: " + status.ToString(), caption); } }

You can check the full documentation in our reference guide(opens in a new tab).

You can also try our engine directly with your files below:

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Have you already tried it? Let us know(opens in a new tab) what you think!

Cheers,