A simple Ghostscript or Libreoffice based PDF to PDF/A-3B converter and other tools.
- A
Bash-compatible shell - A recent version of
GhostscriptorLibreoffice - A recent version of
Exiftool - Java if you need validation (
veraPDFis included)
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All scripts are supposed to be run via parallel, so many options may be omitted if script is run standalone.
This script converts selected PDF into PDF/A-3b format. Supports validation via veraPDF, metadata edition via exiftool and watermark addition. Creates output path automatically if it doesn't exist. This script uses /dev/shm as tmp file path.
./pdf2archive [options] input.pdf [output.pdf]
--quality=<value> Set the quality of the output when downsampling:
high -> -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer
medium -> -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook
low -> -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen
by default -dPDFSETTINGS is not set
--title=<value> Title of the resulting PDF/A file
--author=<value> Author of the resulting PDF/A file
--subject=<value> Subject of the resulting PDF/A file
--keywords=<value> Comma-separated keywords of the resulting PDF/A file
--creator=<value> PDF/A creator program name
--mark=<value> Adds watermark in topright corner
--cpolicy=<value> Ghostscript policy (see -dPDFACompatibilityPolicy)
--good=<filename> Saves all valid filenames into this logfile (proceeded and validated)
--bad=<filename> Saves all invalid filenames into this logfile (proceeded but failed to validate)
--pass=<filename> Saves all skipped filenames into this logfile (not proceeded or just missing)
--cleanmetadata Clean all the standard metadata fields
--validate=<veraPDF> Path to veraPDF executable (if none validation is disabled)
--debug Write additional debug information on screen
-v, --version Show the program version
This is Libreoffice version of pdf2archive script. It doesn't support --mark and --cpolicy. It also uses /dev/shm as tmp file path. All other options are the same as pdf2archive.
./pdf2libre [options] input.pdf [output.pdf]
--title=<value> Title of the resulting PDF/A file
--author=<value> Author of the resulting PDF/A file
--subject=<value> Subject of the resulting PDF/A file
--keywords=<value> Comma-separated keywords of the resulting PDF/A file
--creator=<value> PDF/A creator program name
--good=<filename> Saves all valid filenames into this logfile (proceeded and validated)
--bad=<filename> Saves all invalid filenames into this logfile (proceeded but failed to validate)
--pass=<filename> Saves all skipped filenames into this logfile (not proceeded or just missing)
--cleanmetadata Clean all the standard metadata fields
--validate=<veraPDF> Path to veraPDF executable (if noone validation is disabled)
--debug Write additional debug information on screen
-v, --version Show the program version
This script adds watermark in topright corner to selected PDF file, also it supports validation after it's done.
./pdf2archive [options] input.pdf [output.pdf]
--mark=<value> Adds watermark in topright corner
--good=<filename> Saves all valid filenames into this logfile (proceeded and validated)
--bad=<filename> Saves all invalid filenames into this logfile (proceeded but failed to validate)
--pass=<filename> Saves all skipped filenames into this logfile (not proceeded or just missing)
--validate=<veraPDF> Path to veraPDF executable (if none validation is disabled)
--debug Write additional debug information on screen
-v, --version Show the program version
This script alters selected PDF metadata. Also supports validation after it's done. It modify the original file.
./pdf2meta [options] inout.pdf
--title=<value> Title of the resulting PDF/A file
--author=<value> Author of the resulting PDF/A file
--subject=<value> Subject of the resulting PDF/A file
--keywords=<value> Comma-separated keywords of the resulting PDF/A file
--creator=<value> PDF/A creator program name
--good=<filename> Saves all valid filenames into this logfile (proceeded and validated)
--bad=<filename> Saves all invalid filenames into this logfile (proceeded but failed to validate)
--pass=<filename> Saves all skipped filenames into this logfile (not proceeded or just missing)
--cleanmetadata Clean all the standard metadata fields
--validate=<veraPDF> Path to veraPDF executable (if none validation is disabled)
--debug Write additional debug information on screen
-v, --version Show the program version
To enable running described scripts parallel there are a few example scripts using parallel program. There are no options for this scripts, so you need to modify them if you need.
- run2archive -- runs pdf2archive parallel
- run2mark -- runs pdf2mark parallel
- run2meta -- runs pdf2meta parallel
By default described scripts uses files:
- lista.csv -- as data source, separated by
;, where{x}is column index (counted from 1) - robione.txt -- proceeded files (done and positive validated)
- pominiete.txt -- not proceeded files (missing or error occurred)
- bledne.txt -- invalid files (proceeded but negative validated)
If you need to alter column order, column separator or anything related to input data, just edit selected scriptfile. Also remember to alter --jobs and --delay to achieve best performance for your machine.
Convert 'input.pdf' in PDF/A-3B format; the output is 'input-PDFA.pdf':
./pdf2archive input.pdf
Convert 'input.pdf' in PDF/A-3B format; the output is 'output.pdf':
./pdf2archive input.pdf output.pdf
Convert 'input.pdf' in PDF/A-3B format and perform a high-quality compression:
./pdf2archive --quality=high input.pdf
Convert 'input.pdf' in PDF/A-3B format and specify the document title:
./pdf2archive --title="Title of your nice document" input.pdf
Convert 'input.pdf' in PDF/A-3B format and validate the result:
./pdf2archive --validate=verapdf/verapdf input.pdf
pdf2archive script was originaly created by matteosecli and this is fork of pdf2archive. Big thanks @matteosecli.
PDF2ARCHIVEmaster is under GPLv3+AdobeRGB1998.iccis licensed in compliance with Adobe's license agreement, see https://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/iccprofiles/icc_eula_win_dist.htmlveraPDFis dual-licensed under MPLv2+ and GPLv3+, see http://verapdf.org/home/#licensing