pdfaPilot
Your professional tool to create ISO standard compliant PDF/A files for long-term archiving.
For businesses and government agencies, archives and libraries, that store and long-term maintain documents, callas pdfaPilot 2 is the professional desktop tool to validate and/or create PDF/A-files. It turns all kinds of PDFs into ISO 19005-1 conform PDF/A documents:
callas pdfaPilot 2 is an easy-to-use, quick and reliable tool. Users can save non-compliant PDF files as valid PDF/A documents with the touch of a button. callas pdfaPilot uses the same validation technology as the Preflight function licensed by callas software to Adobe® for the Adobe® Acrobat® 9 Pro application. |
Benefits
- Converts regular PDF files into truly reliable PDF/A files
- Reduces risk of data loss due to not being able to open or display existing documents in the same way in 10, 20 or 100 years from now.
- Saves huge amounts of time by not only analyzing, but also correcting and converting existing PDF files to PDF/A within seconds.
- Offers high convenience for the user thanks to clear and reliable information on PDF/A conformance, easily understandable instructions and detailed explanations. Operation at the touch of a few buttons. Can be used immediately, as no training is necessary due to the clear, intuitive user interface.
- Delivers proven quality assurance for determining the compliance of PDF/A files with the ISO 19005-1 standard. It is based on the same validation technology that callas also licenses to Adobe® for the Preflight function in Acrobat® 9 Pro and passes widely recognized benchmark tests like the Isartor Test Suite.
- Provides the industry’s most extensive analysis and validation of PDF files according to the PDF/A standard, that goes clearly beyond regular Preflight features. Through configurable checks in addition to PDF/A validation, pdfaPilot users can enforce documentation and archival policies.
- Brings maximum flexibility and efficiency in running as well inside Acrobat as without it in standalone mode.
- Ensures compliance with regulatory requirements in terms of long-term archiving.
- Works with all versions of Adobe Acrobat including Elements, Standard, Professional, Extended, as well as Adobe Reader or other PDF viewers.
- Makes your company specific metadata ready to be archived together with your files.
- Ensures full PDF/A-1 compliance for all your metadata, including custom data.
Key Features
- Checks PDFs for compliance to the PDF/A-1 standard (ISO 19005-1)
- Converts PDF files to PDF/A-1 and implements all necessary corrections
- Supports both PDF/A conformance levels (PDF/A-1b and PDF/A-1a)
- Embeds and/or substitutes missing fonts and handles missing glyphs
- Optimizes all color data for compliance with the PDF/A-1 standard
- Adjusts comments and form fields to the defaults required by the PDF/A-1 standard
- Removes unwanted attributes such as layers or interactive content like movies
- Makes image compression compliant with the PDF/A-1 standard
- Creates PDF/A documents that are web optimized for easier access and viewing
- Brings document metadata in line with PDF/A-1 requirements
- Saves newer PDF versions as PDF 1.4 as specified by PDF/A-1
- Implements adjustments and corrections without loss of information
- Delivers clear reports to document all test and correction procedures
- Improves overall accessibility of PDF/A
- Is available in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Japanese language versions
Get the most out of metadata
- Provides convenient browsing of document metadata as well as object-level metadata for images embedded inside the document
- Support for all relevant industry metadata standards including Dublin Core, IPTC, PRISM, GWG AdTicket/AdsML, PLUS, EXIF and Camera Raw
- Facilitates metadata based researching in Yahoo, Wikipedia, Amazon, Google and AskMetaFilter
- Supports GPS data for use with Google Maps, OpenStreetMap and Google Earth
- XML export of all document and object level metadata for tracking image use and licenses
- Define extension schemas for your custom metadata fields as required by PDF/A-1 standard with the new Metadata Extension Editor
- Automatically embeds your company specific metadata schemas for reliable preservation of metadata inside your PDF/A files