With pdfaPilot Desktop it is a snap to check whether your documents comply with the PDF/A standard. And if they don’t, callas pdfaPilot contains a wealth of tools to bring them in line. Working as a plug-in inside Adobe Acrobat or as a fast standalone application, callas pdfaPilot offers the broadest PDF/A support on the market in the easiest package. callas pdfaPilot Desktop works on single documents or – using its batch functionality – on complete folders at a time.

For businesses and government agencies, archives and libraries, that store and long-term maintain documents, callas pdfaPilot is the professional desktop tool to validate and/or create PDF/A-files.

It turns all kinds of PDFs into ISO 19005-1 conform PDF/A documents:

• PDFs created in Office applications
• interactive forms
• invoices
• construction drawings
• technical documentation
• presentations
• newspapers
• books
  

Users can not only save non-compliant PDF files as valid PDF/A documents with the touch of a button but they can also convert Microsoft Office and OpenOffice documents directly to PDF/A.

callas pdfaPilot is an easy-to-use, quick and reliable tool.
callas pdfaPilot uses the same validation technology as the Preflight function licensed by callas software to Adobe® for the Adobe® Acrobat® 9 Pro application.

pdfaPilot offers an extensive set of features – click here for a complete list of pdfaPilot features.

You need to automate pdfaPilot or wish to integrate pdfaPilot into an existing workflow? callas’ PDF tools are also available as server versions.
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Danish media services provider Rosendahls implements callas pdfaPilot to supply accessible PDF/A documents for public authorities…Read the testimonial.

Everything you should know about PDF/A – listen to 50 minutes of very informative video recording

During the PDF/A Seminar in Oslo, Norway, in April 17, 2012, David van Driessche provided an introduction to PDF/A. In just 50 minutes all the important features of the PDF/A standard, including conformance levels A, B and U as well as the three parts of the standard – PDF/A-1, PDF/A-2, and PDF/A-3 – are explained. Watch the video.

callas pdfaPilot SDK is the fastest way for developers to quickly incorporate PDF/A file validation and/or creation for long-term archiving into custom solutions.
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Runs inside Adobe Acrobat Pro 9, X or 11, or as a standalone (without requiring Adobe Acrobat to be installed)

• Mac: Requires Mac OS X, version 10.5 or newer.
• Windows: Requires Windows 2000 / XP / Server 2003 / Vista / Server 2008 / 7 / Server 2012 / 8.