Save time and reduce risk with automated compliance checks for PDF files. Check & fix formatting and styling errors. At speed.

• Easy to setup & use
• Compliant & highly configurable
• Extremely fast and high quality

Fast, scalable and fully automated document validation software. For confidently compliant Word documents.

What does PDFValidator do?

PDFValidator automatically validates PDF files against health authority and other technical compliance guidelines, regardless of the original application it was created in. With automated validation, PDFValidator ensures all PDFs included in a regulatory submission are technically compliant. Without exception. PDFValidator helps you significantly improve your document preparation process for regulatory submissions by identifying issues earlier in their lifecycle. 

What do our customers use PDFValidator for?

PDFValidator software is used to reduce manual work in submission content preparation; saving time and strengthening compliance. Leading Life Sciences companies use PDFValidator to automatically validate PDF documents included in a submission. It is also used to validate PDFs against a host of other internal quality guidelines. PDFValidator returns a clear report of fixed issues, including outstanding non-compliant elements, upon completion.

Benefits

• Save time by automating cumbersome technical compliance checks
• Produce controlled and consistent results
• Reduce the risk of a refusal to file and strengthen technical compliance
• Automatically check and fix PDF files coming from external sources, such as CROs & external writers
• Reduce the dependency on manual desktop tools and drastically reduce associated licensing costs across the organization
• Validate early and provide truly submission-ready content to your publishers. Don’t wait until point of publish to validate your PDFs
• Check and fix PDFs, regardless of how and where they were originally created

Features

Check for bookmark issues

• Bookmarks only included to (and open to) the correct level
• Bookmark nesting issues
• Look for broken & no-action bookmarks
• All bookmarks are set to correct zoom level (eg. inherit zoom)
• Check bookmarks exist where necessary
• Ensure bookmarks exist for each ToC entry
• Check first bookmark points to first page
• Check bookmarks point to correct page

Check for hyperlinks issues

• All hyperlinks are the correct colour (e.g. blue)
• No invisible or broken hyperlinks exist
• Relative paths are used for all hyperlinks
• No external links are included
• All hyperlinks are set to correct zoom level (eg. inherit zoom)
• Identify any non-linked blue text
• Check a ToC is included, if needed
• Check hyperlinks point to correct pages

Check for PDF properties & security issues

• The PDF file size does not exceed any regulatory limits
• Check no security (passwords or restricted access) is applied
• The PDF version is correct
• The PDF is optimized fo ‘fast web view’

Check for font and initial view issues

• Check for font and initial view issues
• Check used fonts are embedded correctly
• Check initial page layout and magnification are set correctly

Check for page related issues

• Page sizes are correct (A4, Letter, etc)
• The initial page orientation is portrait
• There are no blank pages
• Page numbering is sequential
• Ensure headers and first page are not set to draft
• Look for any text remaining in the margins

Check for annotation and text issues

• The PDF is not empty and contains searchable text
• No track changes exist
• No annotations (of specific types) or comments remain
• No digital signatures are included