The veraPDF conformance checker for PDF/A, the project to create purpose-built, industry-accepted validation software and test files for all parts and conformance levels of PDF/A, has advanced to release 0.12.

This beta release includes improved PDF/A-2b and PDF/A-3b validation and a fully featured REST API.

Features

• Conformance checker:
  • PDF/A-2 and PDF-A/3 improvements: implement checks for optional content, JPEG2000 requirements
  • full compliance with BFO test suite (PDF/A-2b)
  • PDF/A-1b fix: check for form field appearance
  • code refactoring to enable PDF model implementation via different PDF parsers
  • performance and memory optimization
• Test corpus:
  • full coverage of all predefined XMP properties
• Command line:
  • the CLI now supports metadata fixing

Documentation

• launched the initial wiki documenting validation rules: https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-validation-profiles/wiki

Infrastructure

• veraPDF-library project refactored into multiple projects
• PDF Box validator implementation in separate project
• Automated source packaging with dependencies