This brief tutorial is designed to describe how to convert PDF to PDFA format using C#. You can convert PDF to PDFA using C# with the help of a few API calls and the steps provided in this article. There is a number of options available while converting the PDF to PDFA like logging errors during the conversion, setting text alignment, etc.

Steps to Convert PDF to PDFA Format using C#

1. Establish the project environment to include Aspose.PDF using Nuget package manager
2. Load the source PDF file into the Document class object for PDF to PDFA conversion
3. Transform the PDF to PDFA using the Convert method in the Document class
4. Save the output PDF file format in the PDFA format

These steps provide the environment configuration details and the list of tasks to be performed while writing PDF to PDFA Converter software using C#. The necessary classes and methods are mentioned that are required to accomplish the task. You can convert the PDF file to PDFA with different conformance levels and versions using the desired option in the Convert method.

Code to Transform PDF to PDFA Format using C#

This code demonstrates how to convert PDF to PDFA using C# where the Convert method has a large number of overloads where different options can be used. For example using the PdfFormatConversionOptions as argument you can set the text alignment, output PDF format like PDF_A_1A, PDF_A_1B, PDF_A_2A, PDF_A_3A, PDF_A_2B, PDF_A_2U, PDF_A_3B, PDF_A_3U, etc., log file name, file size optimization options, to name a few.

In this article, we have learnt to convert PDF to PDFA in C#. If you want to learn to protect PDF files with passwords in C#, refer to the article on how to protect PDF file with password in C#.