Berlin, Germany – October 1, 2008 - callas software will present an overview of its PDF/A-based document archival solutions at FAN, Forum des acteurs du numérique in Paris on October 7-8.

callas pdfaPilot – Direct access to PDF/A

pdfaPilot is an easy-to-use tool, for fast and secure long term archiving of PDF documents. Designed for organizations generating varied documents with a long life-cycle, such as administrations and companies, pdfaPilot validates the PDF documents according to PDF/A standard 19005-1. Additionally, pdfaPilot corrects and converts PDF files to PDF/A within seconds, implementing all necessary corrections

Several units within the European Commission are using the PDF/A standard for ensuring that their documents are qualified for long term archiving. This is valid as well for PDFs that where converted from digital documents as for scanned paper documents.

callas pdfaPilot is available in desktop and server version and supports Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris, AIX and Mac OS X platforms.

Full compliancy with Isartor test suite for PDF/A

callas software recently announced that the PDF/A validation technology used in pdfaPilot is fully compliant with the Isartor test suite for PDF/A. Isator, developed by the PDF/A Competence Center, is a comprehensive PDF/A test suite offering over 200 practical tests to verify that a PDF/A validation tool actually complies with ISO 19005-1, the ISO standard for long term archiving of electronic documents. An ISO standard compliant PDF/A validation tool must identify all problematic aspects to pass the Isartor test suite for PDF/A. callas pdfaPilot is able to detect all relevant problems.

FAN, Forum des acteurs du numérique takes place in Paris, Palais des Congrès on October 7-8, 2008. You will find callas software at booth C80.

We invite you to the callas software conference on PDF/A: 'An introduction to the use of the PDF format for long term archiving' (FR) by Olaf Drümmer, Managing Director of callas software GmbH . This conference starts at 10h15 to 10h30, on Tuesday, October 7 in Palais des Congrès, Paris, Atelier 3.