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PDF to PDFA Conversion
| Title | PDF to PDF A Conversion |
| Detailed description | One solution is to use ghostscript to convert PDF to Post Script to PDF/A. Once ghostscript is installed the following bat script can be placed in a file named "pdf2pdfa.bat" and ran in a directory containing PDFs @ECHO OFF SET lib="%programfiles(x86)%\gs\gs9.14\lib" MKDIR .\PDFA for %%f in (*.pdf) do ( echo %%~nf if NOT exist .\PDFA%%f ( %lib%\pdf2ps %%f tmp.ps %lib%\ps2pdf tmp.ps .\PDFA%%f DEL tmp.ps ) ) This seems to produce valid PDF/As but is slow and and is only appropriate for PDFs containing scanned images as text is converted to display only |
| Solution Champion | MatthewBbull |
| Corresponding Issue(s) | PDF to PDF A Conversion |
| Tool/code link | http://www.ghostscript.com/download/gsdnld.html |
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