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The Isartor PDF-A Test Suite

Created by Andrew Jackson on Jun 03, 2011 · last edited by Andrew Jackson · on Jun 03, 2011 (view history)

Introduction

The Isartor PDF/A Test Suite consists of a set of carefully crafted PDF documents that each break the PDF/A standard in a particular way. The PDF/A Competence Centre created them in order to help validate PDF/A validators, e.g. so that the validators can be reliably used to test format conversion tools. The terms of use of the test suite prohibit re-distribution and third-party certification, but it was not clear whether simply publishing the results from using the test suite with a particular tool would be permitted. Andrew Jackson contacted them via email to clarify (2011-06-03), and they confirmed that publishing such results was okay as long as we make it clear these results are our responsibility.

Ideas

Take some PDF/A validator tools, run them against the test suite, normalise the output, and publish on a web site for general consumption.
Augment the test suite with files that are believed to be valid.
The Isartor test files contain text that describes how they break the standard. This text could be turned into machine-readable properties, e.g. RDF, to make testing easier.
Seek permission to redistribute the corpora items individually, to make analysis and annotation easier. Perhaps OPF members only?