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veraPDF

veraPDF is a file-format validator for the PDF/A archiving standard

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veraPDF is a purpose-built, open source, file-format validator covering all PDF/A parts and conformance levels. veraPDF is designed to meet the needs of digital preservationists and is supported by the PDF software developer community.

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1.30.120 Apr 2026
  • (PDF/A-4, PDF/UA-2) added validation of pdfaid:rev and pdfuaid:rev
  • (PDF/UA-2, WTPDF-1) permit math to be not necessarily an immediate child of Formula structure element
  • (PDF/UA-2, WTPDF-1) limited PDF/UA-2 8.10.1 and 8.10.2 clauses to Widget annotations used as the appearance of interactive form fields.
  • (PDF/A-1) fixed matching date validation in case any dates are missing in the XMP metadata.
  • (PDF/UA-1,2, WTPDF-1) permitted top left cells with no Scope in Table structure element.
  • Fixed runtime exceptions in cases of invalid data structures.
  • End of PDFBox support
  • Added support for Java 25.
  • Added automatic module names to the MANIFEST files.
  • Fixed thread safety issues.
1.28.215 Jul 2025
  • updated vulnerable dependencies
  • (PDF/UA-2, WTPDF-1) disabled rule about multiple link annotations that target the same location
  • (PDF/UA-2, WTPDF-1) fixed structure destination validation
  • fixed validation of Unicode for several flavours
  • fixed width calculation in an edge case of Type2CharString
  • fixed COSPredictorDecode
  • fixed RDF parsing with no attributes in metadata
  • fixed exceptions in case of malformed PDFs
  • moved Maven publication from the decommissioned Sonatype service to Maven central publication
  • added the new maven-central-publication plugin to veraPDF-parent POM for publication for all projects
  • updated the Maven plugins used to the latest versions
1.28.16 May 2025
  • fixed parsing of empty UTF-16 string
  • fixed parsing of CFF fonts with empty Name Index
  • updated width calculation for CFFType1 font program with duplicated glyph names
  • fixed name calculation for glyph with code 0
  • fixed signature EOF logic in incremental updates
  • fixed parsing of compressed CIDToGIDMap stream
  • (WTPDF-1) added support for WTPDF Reuse and Accessibility conformance levels
  • (PDF/A, PDF/UA) fixes the issue of accepting sometimes string value type if the PDF specification requires name object type
  • (PDF/A) fixed validation of Interpolate entry in image mask dictionaries
  • (PDF/A-1) updated the rule on compressed XMP Metadata
  • (PDF/UA-1) added rule about PDF version
  • (PDF/UA-1) fixed recursive propagation of Artifact to untagged Form XObjects
  • (PDF/UA-1,2) fixed handing of circular role mappings and namespaces
  • (PDF/UA-1,2) permit untagged tilling patterns
  • (PDF/UA-2) permit math structure type only within Formula
  • (PDF/UA-2) added rule to require Metadata entry in Catalog
  • (ISO 32005) updated Div, Part, NonStruct processing to inherit containment rules from the parent
  • (ISO 32005) added containment rules for Ruby and Warichu
  • (ISO 32005) permitted Sub as a child of Code
  • (ISO 32005) fixed rule on content items in StructTreeRoot
  • (PDF/UA-1,2, WTPDF-1, ISO 32005) added rules to require Marked=true entry in MarkInfo dictionary
  • (PDF/UA-2, WTPDF-1, ISO 32005) fixed parent-child rules for NonStruct, Part and Div
  • (PDF/UA-2, WTPDF-1, ISO 32005) fixed exception during table validation in cases of invalid table structure
  • (PDF/UA-2, WTPDF-1) fixed mismatch of structure destinations in Link annotations
  • (PDF/UA-2, WTPDF-1) fixed rule about alternative text for signature graphic content with no text
  • (PDF/UA-2, WTPDF-1) fixed checking ToggleNoView flag for annotations
  • fixed xref parsing in some exceptional cases and improved error reporting
  • fixed parsing of indirect Kids in number tree
  • fixed invalid byte range parsing in CMap stream
  • added validation for several flavours
  • created docker image for veraPDF CLI
  • added showing location of config
  • improved performance
  • improved logs
  • more robust exception handling
  • updated PDF/A-4 and PDF/UA-2 test corpus
  • added WTPDF declarations to PDF/UA-2 test files
  • improved java docs
  • improved policy documentation
  • updated izpack to version 5.2.4
1.2622 May 2024
  • (PDF/UA-2) added support for PDF/UA-2 (draft).
  • (PDF/UA-1) detect and report structure elements with missing parent.
  • (PDF/UA-1) fixed checks related to role maps between standard and non-standard tags.
  • (PDF/UA-1) fixed rules related to annotations in structure tree.
  • (PDF/UA-1) added checks for XMP prefixes in the identification metadata.
  • (PDF/A-1,2,3,4) added check for valid values of BitsPerComponent.
  • (PDF/A-2,3,4) apply the rule on identical tint transform also to /All and /None.
  • (PDF/A-1) added check that the document does not use xref stream.
  • (PDF/A-1) Fix syncing XMP with Info dictionary in case of multiple creators.
  • Improved REST API: more logical endpoints, documentation, web demo page, automatic deployment of the docker image to DockerHub.com.
  • Redesigned main GUI window.
  • Improved CLI output (help, debug logs, text report, JSON report formatting).
  • added support for Java 21.
  • Improved multithreading performance of JavaScript evaluation.
  • Set secure parameter for xslt transformation (CVE-2024-28109).
  • Updated predefined CMaps.