veraPDF-library

The open source, definitive PDF/A validation library

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Pre-requisites

In order to run the applications or use the GUI you'll need:

• Java 7, which can be downloaded from Oracle, or for Linux users OpenJDK.

If you want to build the code from source you'll also require:

• Maven v3+

Building and Running the veraPDF-library

Building from source

1. Download the veraPDF-library repository, either cloning via Git git clone https://github.com/veraPDF/veraPDF-library or downloading the latest zip archive from GitHub.

2. Move to the downloaded project directory, e.g. cd veraPDF-library.

3. Build and install using Maven, mvn clean install.

Running the command line validation application

1. Move to the build directory for the command line interface application, e.g. cd {project directory}/cli/target.

2. Run the compiled command line application:

java -jar vera-cli-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar verapdf --validate --input "{path to input pdf file}" --profile "{path to validation profile}" --output "{path to saved report}"