PDF/A is the ISO standard for long-term preservation. It requires everything needed to render the document to be embedded in it, so the file still displays correctly decades later when the original fonts are gone.
An ordinary PDF can reference fonts and colour profiles that are not inside it. PDF/A embeds everything, so it renders the same in future.
Later versions allow more, such as attachments in PDF/A-3. Archives usually specify which they accept.
Commercial printing. It constrains colour and fonts so output is predictable on press.
These tools handle one document at a time. When the job is thousands of files, Greenbooks handles document digitization as a managed service, including bulk scanning, OCR and metadata capture, with the output loaded into DocuVenta DMS. Talk to us about volume work.
