PDFUA.io Validator

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Agencies

Agency and reseller workspaces provide isolated client organizations with credit budgets allocated from a shared pool, and workspace switches are audit-logged.pdfua.io · read 12 Oct 2026

API

The product provides an HTTP validation API using an API key and can return JSON or HTML reports for use from CI pipelines, document-management systems, or other apps.pdfua.io · read 12 Oct 2026

Audit evidence

Reports include the verdict, errors and warnings, engine version, and the file's SHA-256 fingerprint, and can be re-rendered from the stored validation.pdfua.io · read 12 Oct 2026

Company

The site footer says PDFUA.io is built in Canada; the Validator page says it was built by the team behind the PDFUA.io generation engine.pdfua.io · read 12 Oct 2026

Credit limits

One credit covers each started 100 pages, an aborted validation costs one credit, and scheduled re-validation of a document with an unchanged SHA-256 fingerprint costs nothing.pdfua.io · read 12 Oct 2026

Early access

The Validator is onboarding a small number of organizations through an early-access list, with priority for teams and agencies facing active compliance deadlines.pdfua.io · read 12 Oct 2026

Findings

Findings include severity, occurrence counts, structure path, page number, PDF object, and a text snippet; a privacy toggle can omit snippets.pdfua.io · read 12 Oct 2026

Input

Users can upload PDFs, validate batches up to 200 MB, or provide a public URL for the Validator to fetch.pdfua.io · read 12 Oct 2026

Integrations

The site names CI pipelines, document-management systems, and users' own apps as API use cases; it does not name specific third-party integrations.pdfua.io · read 12 Oct 2026

Languages

Reports are available in English or French, including official French WCAG criterion names, from the same stored validation.pdfua.io · read 12 Oct 2026

Monitoring

The Validator can discover PDFs across domains and schedule daily, weekly, or monthly re-validation with alerts for regressions, fetch failures, and exhausted credits.pdfua.io · read 12 Oct 2026

Purpose

The Validator checks PDFs against WCAG 2.1 AA or strict PDF/UA-1 (ISO 14289-1) and keeps audit-ready evidence.pdfua.io · read 12 Oct 2026

Self-hosting

Enterprise options include a stateless validation API container that stores nothing or a self-hosted monitoring appliance with groups, schedules, and domain scanning.pdfua.io · read 12 Oct 2026

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