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Your professional tool to create ISO standard compliant PDF/A files for long-term archiving.

For businesses and government agencies, archives and libraries, that store and long-term maintain documents, callas pdfaPilot 2 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


callas pdfaPilot 2 is an easy-to-use, quick and reliable tool. Users can save non-compliant PDF files as valid PDF/A documents with the touch of a button. callas pdfaPilot uses the same validation technology as the Preflight function licensed by callas software to Adobe® for the Adobe® Acrobat® 9 Pro application.

What is new in pdfaPilot 2.1?
callas pdfaPilot 2.1 now also converts Microsoft Office documents to PDF/A Additional features of the new version are support of PDF/A-1a, enhanced handling of XMP metadata as well as transparency flattening when publishing.
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pdfaPilot 2 offers an extensive set of features – click here for a complete list of pdfaPilot features.

Need to automate PDF pdfaPilot?

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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callas pdfaPilot SDK 2

callas pdfaPilot SDK 2 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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System requirements

  • Runs as either a standalone application with all PDF-viewers or a plug-in inside Adobe® Acrobat® 8 Professional or 9 Pro.
  • Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7 or Mac OS X 10.4 or newer.

pdfaPilot 2 brochure

pdfaPilot brochure as PDF file (2 pages, 264 KB) pdfaPilot brochure as PDF file (2 pages, 264 KB)