We’ve been evaluating different tools that might create PDF/A files for our digital archive and are having a hard time interpreting the results from VeraPDF from two different directions. First, in our real-world tests of ABBYY FineReader, Adobe Acrobat, and Ghostscript, not all of the tools produces a valid PDF/A file according to VeraPDF (though we’ve had problems with each), which is perfectly fine (and not something that is a fault of the tool), but it presents the following questions: 
  1. Can VeraPDF highlight the relative severity of the error? Or is there info available about the relative severity of an uncalibrated color space vs. undocumented operators in a content stream 
  2. Are there recommendations for batch tools to fix PDFs that you might suggest?
  3. Are there better tools that you’ve found for batch creating PDF/As that you might suggest?

thanks in advance,

adam brin
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Adam Brin
Director of Technology, Digital Antiquity
480.965.1278