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PDF Portal Prep-Suite

Government and corporate upload portals often have strict, non-obvious requirements — file size limits, page orientation, searchable text, PDF/A archival metadata. Check your PDF against all of them at once, and fix what's fixable in one click.

No signup · No file limits · Files never leave your device

How It Works

1

Choose Your PDF

It's checked instantly against 5 common portal submission requirements.

2

See What Passes & What Doesn't

A clear pass/fail checklist, with the reason behind each result.

3

Fix All & Download

One click resolves everything that's fixable, and downloads a single corrected PDF.

Frequently Asked Questions

What exactly gets checked?

File size against an adjustable target (default 2MB), whether the PDF is password-protected, whether it declares PDF/A conformance metadata, whether all pages share a consistent orientation, and whether the document has real searchable text rather than being scanned images.

Does "declares PDF/A conformance" mean the file is officially certified PDF/A?

No, and we want to be upfront about that. True ISO 19005 (PDF/A) certification requires validation against an official conformance checker, which isn't something any tool can genuinely run entirely in a browser. This check — and its "fix" — apply the real, verifiable mechanics every PDF/A file needs (an embedded color profile and PDF/A-identifying metadata), the same honest scope as our dedicated PDF to PDF/A tool.

Can "Fix All" make my PDF searchable if it's a scan?

Not automatically — that requires running OCR and embedding the recognized text back into the file, which we don't do as part of this check to avoid the risk of a poorly-aligned text layer. If your file fails this check, use our OCR Text Extractor first, then re-check the result here.

What if my PDF is password-protected?

Every other check needs to actually read the file's content, which isn't possible while it's encrypted. You'll see a single result telling you so, with a link to our Remove PDF Password tool — remove the password first, then check again.

Is my file uploaded anywhere?

No. Every check and every fix happens entirely inside your browser — nothing is ever sent to a server.

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