Free PDF/A validation

And finally there is some light at the end of the tunnel.
Remember the days where all you can do in terms of validating PDF files was to use PitStop?
Then some of us who had to do with PDF/A realized that this was not enough. And here Callas entered the scene. Then Acrobat followed and may be you considered that it was finally done.
There were interesting times but let's be fair ... it is not done until the fat lady sings and those days the fat lady is something else than a big name company. PDF/A is an open format and there shall be at least one way to validate it using free software. It is not about socialism (I am also producing commercial tools) but about the free services that (archives, libraries and NGO's) that have to comply with this format but had no tools to do it.
So ... for anybody that has to validate PDF/A documents using free tools check veraPDF (http://verapdf.org/home/). Some well spent EU money :-)

Enjoy it.