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veraPDF 0.16: full support for all parts and conformance levels of PDF/A

June 3, 2016
The veraPDF purpose-built validator for PDF/A now covers all parts and conformance levels of PDF/A.
Duff Johnson
About Duff Johnson

As CEO, Duff coordinates industry activities and promotes the advancement and adoption of PDF technology worldwide.


veraPDF logoThe veraPDF conformance checker for PDF/A at version 0.16. This latest version is the first to provide support for all parts and conformance levels of PDF/A.

Feature updates in the conformance checker include:

  • validation of requirements for digital signatures
  • extraction of color space information from JPEG 2000 images

  • validation of the permissions dictionary

  • corrected implementation of CIDSystemInfo entry requirements (PDF/A-2B)

  • command line support for plugin execution to extend feature extraction

veraPDF characterization plugins

  • first set of example pure java plugins available
  • optional sample plugin pack available through installer

The veraPDF test corpus gained an additional 112 atomic test files covering PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-3 requirements.

Demo website

A demo of the REST interface is available at http://demo.verapdf.org. This server has now been updated with 0.16, and therefore supports all parts and conformance levels of PDF/A.

Download veraPDF 0.16

http://downloads.verapdf.org/rel/verapdf-installer.zip

Release notes

https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-library/releases/latest

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