What is a PDF/A and when do I need one?
It is the PDF variant made for long-term archiving: everything needed to display the document is embedded inside it. Public bodies and courts often require it on filing.
Convert to PDF/A
Produce a PDF that meets the long-term archiving standard.
PDF/A is the standard required by public bodies, courts and archives. It demands that everything needed to display the document — fonts included — sits inside the file itself, so it stays readable in twenty years. We check that the file we produce does declare conformance, and tell you when it does not.
This tool needs a machine: your file is sent to our servers in Europe, processed, then automatically erased.
Common questions
What happens to my file afterwards?
This tool needs a machine: your file is sent to our servers in Europe, processed, then deleted automatically. We keep no copy and we do not read it.
What changes in my document?
Fonts are embedded, colours precisely described, and anything that does not survive time is stripped — video, scripts, links to outside files. The appearance itself does not change.