[WEB4LIB] PDF "validator"?

[Michael McDonnell]

Thomas Dowling wrote:

>Web4Lib--
>
>I'm tending a collection of electronic theses and dissertations in PDF 
>format, in which students (or their grad schools) are supposed to upload 
>the PDF and then check that the uploaded version opens correctly when 
>downloaded again.  Too often, no one checks the PDF and we get a copy 
>that was corrupted during the upload.
>
>Does anyone know of a tool that can check PDFs for common errors, and 
>that I can script in a Unix command-line environment?
>  
>
The popular "xpdf" program comes with some command line tools for doing 
conversion to other formats.  I suspect that running a PDF through 
"pdftotext" might catch those errors.  I haven't verified this but it 
probably worth trying.

-- 
Michael McDonnell, GCIA
Winterstorm Solutions, Inc.
michael at winterstorm.ca