CIB pdf toolbox technical guide (EN)

5. PDF/A conversation

5.2. Specific Options for PDF/A

Property description

Type

Funcionality

Kind

PdfAFallback

(from CIB pdf toolbox 1.12.0 onwards)

String

Controls whether, if an error occurs during PDF/A conversion, the page concerned is automatically converted as an image via CIB renderer.

Possible values:

„0“   If an error occurs during PDF/A conversion a return value is set (default).

„1“   If an error occurs, the corresponding page is converted as a graphic via CIB renderer.

Set

PdfVersion

String

Setting the PDF version to be generated.

Valid values:

„PDF/A-1b“                 Due to ISO 19005-1

„PDF/A-2b“                 Due to ISO 19005-2

„PDF/A-3b“                 Due to ISO 19005-3

Get/Set

SkipPageXmpCheck

(from CIB pdf toolbox 1.20.0 onwards)

String

This property can be used to control the handling of the XMP metadata present in PDF at page level during PDF/A conversion.

Possible values:

0        Default
All existing XMP metadata in PDF will be removed and replaced in the PDF/A output at document level by XMP metadata with default values.

1        The XMP metadata existing at page level is transferred to the PDF/A output without being checked. In this case, the user is responsible for ensuring that the data is PDF/A compliant.

Set

ImagePdfCreationPreserveText

(from CIB pdf toolbox 1.21.0 onwards)

String

This property can be used to control that in case of a PDF/A fallback (PdfAFallback=1, for details see description of PdfAFallback property), the data will be extracted and embedded in the generated PDF/A.

The text content will be extracted from the PDF, converted to HOCR format and embedded as HOCR in the PDF/A file.

Possible values:

0            Default
No text extraction

1            Text extraction and embedding in PDF/A

Set