PDF2ARCHIVE

A simple Ghostscript or Libreoffice based PDF to PDF/A-3B converter and other tools.

Requirements

• A Bash-compatible shell
• A recent version of Ghostscript or Libreoffice
• A recent version of Exiftool
• Java if you need validation (veraPDF is included)

Installation

Clone this repository.

Scripts included

All scripts are supposed to be run via parallel, so many options may be omitted if script is run standalone.

pdf2archive

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

pdf2libre

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

pdf2mark

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

pdf2meta

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

Parallel runners

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.

Examples

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

Credits

pdf2archive script was originaly created by matteosecli and this is fork of pdf2archive. Big thanks @matteosecli.

Licensing

• PDF2ARCHIVE master is under GPLv3+
• AdobeRGB1998.icc is licensed in compliance with Adobe's license agreement, see https://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/iccprofiles/icc_eula_win_dist.html
• veraPDF is dual-licensed under MPLv2+ and GPLv3+, see http://verapdf.org/home/#licensing