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The first program to support both verification & automatic correction of PDF/A, the new international standard for long-term, electronic document archiving.

• Most comprehensive PDF & PDF/A verification tool available
• Unique AutoFixer™ repairs most document problems automatically
• Simple, elegant user interface
• Easy for beginners
• Customizable for power users
• First tool available for converting existing TIFF & PDF to PDF/A
• Multiple reporting options from summary overview to in-depth technical details
  
  

What is PDF/A?

PDF/A is the name for the set of standards covered by ISO 19005. The goal is to provide a storage format for electronic data that will guarantee reliable reproduction at any point in its lifetime. It is a multi-part standard with several levels of compliance which enables users to choose the set of requirements that fit their usage.

Businesses, governments, libraries, archives and other institutions and individuals around the world use PDF to represent considerable bodies of important information. Much of this information must be kept for substantial lengths of time; some must be kept permanently. The future use of, and access to, these objects depends upon maintaining their visual appearance as well as their higher-order properties.

It is important to note that while these standards ensure the reliable storage and visual reproduction of the data, they make no statement about the quality of the data contained in the files. Because such issues as raster data resolution, printing conditions, annotation requirements, number of pages per file, allowed font types, presence of OCR/hidden text, etc. are largely market specific, they are not specified in these standards. Rather, they are felt to be the province of trade associations and/or organizations who have already begun to publish such specifications for these parameters in support of the use of the PDF/A standards.

Apago Ships PDF Appraiser for Creating and Validating PDF/A Documents

Apago also introduces no-cost PDF/A validation

PDF/A is the much-anticipated standard for long-term archiving of digital documents, expected to become the preferred archival method for governments and industry segments, including corporations, legal, libraries, regulated industries, and others. Apago is leading the way for the rapid adoption of the new standard by offering PDF/A validation capabilities at no cost.

"Reliable, low-cost, easy-to-use tools are critical to the promotion and rapid adoption of new standards. Apago developed the first tools for the popular PDF/X international standard, and now we are introducing the first PDF/A verification and correction tool," states Dwight Kelly, president of Apago Inc. "With the free version of PDF Appraiser, users can easily check documents for PDF/A compliance. If they want to automatically correct any problems within the file or need more advanced or technically detailed reports, users can purchase the full version. As with all Apago's products, we designed PDF Appraiser so that users don't have to be PDF experts to create PDF/A-compliant files."

With digital documents rapidly replacing paper ones. PDF/A, approved by ISO, is a standard that specifies requirements for archiving and preserving digital documents in the Portable Document Format (PDF). PDF/A addresses the growing need to electronically archive documents in a way that will ensure both the preservation of their contents over an extended period of time and that those documents can be retrieved and rendered with consistent and predictable results in the future.

PDF Appraiser's elegant user interface makes it easy for beginner, intermediate, and advanced users to verify, interpret, and correct problems.

If a file fails verification, PDF Appraiser generates a report outlining what problems must be corrected. With Auto-Fixer, an automatic repair feature, the application can quickly fix most problems in order to obtain a document that is compliant with PDF/A. If the file cannot be automatically repaired, PDF Appraiser lists the problems with its customisable reports, allowing the user to fix and recheck the file for PDF/A compliance.
PDF Appraiser ensures that a document is fully compliant with the published PDF/A standard. Appraiser utilities a revolutionary new method for analysing PDF files at the deepest levels and for creating easily understood, customisable reports.
The full version of PDF Appraiser for Windows is shipping now.

The free version is limited to PDF/A verification and simple reporting.

For access to the full features of the application, Windows users can purchase a desktop or server license. Server and API versions will also be available during 2006 for Mac OS X, Solaris, and Linux.