Bug 136822 - Add VeraPDF as a PDF validator for our PDF/A unit tests
Summary: Add VeraPDF as a PDF validator for our PDF/A unit tests
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Printing and PDF export (show other bugs)
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(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Whiteboard: target:26.8.0
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Blocks: PDF
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Reported: 2020-09-16 22:20 UTC by Jan-Marek Glogowski
Modified: 2026-02-20 07:32 UTC (History)
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Description Jan-Marek Glogowski 2020-09-16 22:20:57 UTC 
VeraPDF (https://verapdf.org) is the primary open-source tool to verify PDF/A documents and it's written in Java. It contains a GUI and a command line variant to verify PDF/A documents.

LO already includes two external validators for ODF and OOXML, so it would be nice to have additional unit tests for PDF/A and use VeraPDF to check for conformance. This way it would be much easier to write a unit test for PDF/A bugs like bug 136805.
Comment 1 Xisco Faulí 2020-10-05 10:07:12 UTC 
Moving to NEW
Comment 2 Commit Notification 2026-02-20 07:32:48 UTC 
Xisco Fauli committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/7039373704b2e9c78662c2e44ae81aea522b5f7b

tdf#136822: Add VeraPDF as a PDF validator

It will be available in 26.8.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.