veraPDF

Industry-backed, open-source validation library and CLI for checking PDF files against the PDF/A and PDF/UA standards, developed by a consortium including the PDF Association and major archives/libraries specifically to be the reference validator for these standards. Produces a detailed machine-readable validation report identifying exactly which conformance rules a file violates, rather than a simple pass/fail result. Widely used in digital-preservation workflows where formal PDF/A compliance is a hard requirement.