
Apryse PDF/A Manager V11.9086415.
Copyright (c) 2001-2025 Apryse Software Inc., apryse.com.

You are running a DEMO version of PDF/A Manager.
In the demo version, all converted pages will be stamped with a demo stamp.

Usage: pdfa [<options>] file...

OPTIONS:

  --file... arg            A list of folders and/or file names to process.
  -p [ --pass ] arg        The password to process the input file. The password
                           is required only in the conversion mode and when the
                           input document is encrypted.
  -x [ --noxml ]           Disable XML report generation.
  -o [ --outdir ] arg      The output directory. The folder can be relative to 
                           the current working folder. If the folder does not 
                           exist PDFA will attempt to create the required path.
                           If this parameter is not specified all files will be
                           saved relative to the current working folder.
  -f [ --fname ] arg       The explicit name for the converted file. The 
                           parameter is used only when converting one file at a
                           time. The output file will be stored in the 'outdir'
                           folder.
  --suffix arg (=_pdfa)    A string to append to all output filenames. This 
                           option is typically used to tag output filenames 
                           during multi-file or batch conversion. For example, 
                           if input file is "my.pdf" and suffix is "_pdfa" the 
                           output filename will be "my_pdfa.pdf".
                           
  -l [ --level ] arg (=2B) PDF/A Conformance Level: [1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 2U, 3A, 
                           3B, 3U, 4, 4E, 4F]
                           
                           1A Target PDF/A-1a conformance profile.
                           1B Target PDF/A-1b conformance profile.
                           2A Target PDF/A-2a conformance profile.
                           2B Target PDF/A-2b conformance profile.
                           2U Target PDF/A-2u conformance profile.
                           3A Target PDF/A-3a conformance profile.
                           3B Target PDF/A-3b conformance profile.
                           3U Target PDF/A-3u conformance profile.
                           4 Target PDF/A-4 conformance profile.
                           4E Target PDF/A-4e conformance profile.
                           4F Target PDF/A-4f conformance profile.
                           
  -c [ --convert ]         Convert input PDF files to PDF/A compliant format.
  -z [ --linearize ]       Linearize the converted files.
  --nr                     Do not revalidate after conversion.
  --config arg             Load xml file to configure font substitution for 
                           missing fonts. By default, tries to load the file 
                           "config.xml" in the current working directory.
                           
  --subfolders             Process all subfolders.
  --extension arg (=.pdf)  The default file extension used to process PDF 
                           documents. The default extension is ".pdf".
  --verb arg (=1)          Set the verbosity level to 'arg' (0-2).
  -v [ --version ]         Print the version information.
  -h [ --help ]            Print a listing of available options.
  --max_ref_objs arg (=10) The maximum number of object numbers to store for 
                           each error code. The default is 10. To output all 
                           object numbers, pass the value 0 as an argument.
  --flatten                Whether to run flattener on pages with transparency 
                           in Level 1 conformance mode during conversion.

  --lic_key arg         Apryse SDK license key. Using this option, license keys
                        can be passed on the command line or in a separate .lic
                        file.
                        

Examples:
  pdfa *.pdf
  pdfa --level 1B in1.pdf in2.pdf mydir
  pdfa -o outdir -c in.pdf
  pdfa -o outdir -c -z -l 1B --subfolders --verb 10 mydir
  pdfa -o outdir -c --noxml mydir my1.pdf folder/my2.pdf

