Convert your PDF to the PDF/A format for reliable, standards-compliant long-term archiving.
Readable in twenty years. I may be gone; it will not be.— Poulpi
The PDF/A format (ISO 19005) guarantees identical rendering over time. Conversion requires Ghostscript installed on the server.
PDF/A is a format standardised by ISO (the ISO 19005 standard) and built for one job: long-term PDF archiving. An ordinary PDF may depend on fonts installed on your machine, on colours rendered differently from one screen to another, or on external resources that will eventually vanish. Ten or twenty years later, nothing guarantees it will look the way it does today.
PDF/A removes that uncertainty. It embeds every font inside the file, pins device-independent colours and forbids any external dependency, so the document is self-contained and stays readable exactly as it was. That is why administrations, legal archives and compliance teams so often require this format. To convert a PDF to PDF/A is to guarantee that a contract, a deed or a report can be reopened intact long after it was created.
Converting a PDF to PDF/A does not change your content: the tool re-saves the document as PDF/A-2 with embedded fonts and normalised colours, so it meets the requirements of the standard. You get a self-sufficient file, ready for an archive deposit or an official submission.
A few useful companions around this conversion: run repair first if the original file is damaged, since a healthy PDF converts more cleanly. Once you have the PDF/A, compress makes it lighter for long-term storage, while metadata lets you check and correct the title, author and properties expected in an archiving record.
On privacy, no sign-up is required and your files are deleted automatically after processing. Your documents are used only to produce your PDF/A, nothing more.
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PDF/A is a standardised version of PDF (ISO 19005) designed for long-term archiving: embedded fonts, device-independent colours and no external dependencies, so the document renders identically over time.
Upload your PDF: the tool re-converts it to PDF/A-2 (embedded fonts, device-independent colours), then you download the archive-ready file.
PDF/A is an ISO standard (19005) designed for long-term archiving, ensuring the document will display identically years from now. It notably requires embedded fonts and forbids externally dependent elements.
Yes, non-compliant elements such as unembedded fonts or certain dynamic content may be adjusted to meet the standard. The goal is to make the document self-contained and stable over time.
Yes, this tool is 100% free with no usage limits. No sign-up, no credit card and no watermark added to your documents.
Yes. Your files are processed securely and automatically deleted from our servers after processing. Nobody has access to them.