PDF Validation

Accurately Test Your PDFs for Accessibility

Validation

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PDF validation ensures that a PDF meets essential standards and requirements, from proper formatting and structure to accessibility and compliance. This process helps guarantee that your document is reliable, correctly displayed, and accessible to everyone.

Introducing Our Free PDF Accessibility Checker

PDFix Desktop Lite is a free PDF accessibility checker that provides an automated way to easily assess the PDFs for accessibility. It’s powered by the industry-supported veraPDF validation engine, which is a component of the Open Preservation Foundation’s reference toolset. It quickly tests PDFs for compliance with PDF/UA standards, identifies and explains accessibility issues, and offers actionable suggestions for resolution.

  • Support for PDF/UA-1 (machine) validation leveraging the Matterhorn Protocol
  • Compatible with PAC, Adobe Acrobat
  • Quick navigation to errors in Tags, Content, or Annotations panes
  • Conversion to HTML for visually evaluating the logical structure and reading order
  • Well-organized summary of the results

Deriving HTML from PDF

Transform tagged documents into HTML files that meet compliance standards, leveraging the Deriving HTML from PDF specification.

  • Simplify accessibility of PDF through HTML
  • Reuse PDF content on mobile devices
  • Access information contained in PDF documents over the visual representation
  • Render authored PDFs into HTML
  • Derive PDF content into HTML for automated processing

How to Check PDF for Accessibility?

Ensure your PDF’s compliance with accessibility standards using PDFix Desktop Lite. Validate your tagged PDFs effortlessly, with errors highlighted and navigated to directly within the document. The Content Panel conveniently pinpoints errors for quick resolution.

Save time and explore our PDFix Desktop video tutorial or visit our blog for a wealth of insightful posts on PDF validation!

PDFix Desktop Tutorial: How to check if a PDF is valid for Accessibility. Click to load the Embed YouTube Player to play the video.

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Desktop Lite

PDFix Desktop Lite is a multiplatform PDF viewer with a built-in accessibility tool.

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Desktop Pro

PDFix Desktop is a complex solution for PDF Accessibility, PDF Conversion and Data Extraction designed for professionals and businesses of all sizes.

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SDK

PDFix SDK is a cross-platform solution to Automatically Extract Structured Data from any PDF.


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