Powered by OPF
OPF WIKI STATIC ARCHIVE
2,681 pages · 153 spaces · 776 tags · 4,025 history records · 96.2% of the original wiki recovered
Version comparison. Confluence's rendering of what changed between two versions of this page. Recovered from the Internet Archive snapshot of /pages/diffpagesbyversion.action?pageId=35127310&selectedPageVersions=12&selectedPageVersions=13 taken on 2016-08-08.

Not valid PDF

compared with
Current by Johan van der Knijff
on Jul 11, 2014 14:50.

Key
This line was removed.
This word was removed. This word was added.
This line was added.

Changes (2)

View Page History
|[*sample file needed*|http://www.opf-labs.org/format-corpus/pdfCabinetOfHorrors/updateThisLink]|Malformed PDF|Exception| |

h2. Recommendations

h3. Pre-ingest

* No authorative or generally accepted tools exist for PDF validation, but using [Apache Preflight|Apache PDFBox] and checking its output for processing errors will at least detect PDFs that are seriously malformed.

h3. Existing collections

* Use [Apache Preflight|Apache PDFBox] and check for processing errors.
* In some cases it may be possible to obtain an intact version of malformed files from the original depositor/publisher.

h2. References