This short topic guides you on how to convert PDF to PDFA format using Python. It covers all the information required to set the environment for using the sample code along with the description of the code. In order to write the PDF to PDFA converter using Python no other component or third-party tool is required to be installed.

Steps to Convert PDF to PDFA using Python

1. Set the IDE to use Aspose.PDF for Python via .NET to convert PDF to PDFA
2. Access the source PDF file to be converted to PDFA using the Document class object
3. Show the current format of the PDF file
4. Use the Document.convert() method to convert the PDF to a PDFA format
5. Show the converted format for confirmation before saving the PDF file on the disk

Thee above steps summarize the simple process of how to convert PDF to PDFA using Python. The process starts by loading the source PDF file using the Document class object. In the subsequent step, the call is made to a convert method to export the loaded PDF to a number of other formats including the PDFA format.

Code to Transform PDF to PDFA using Python

The above example can be used to develop a PDF to PDFA converter software using Python. It utilizes the Document.pdf_format property to show the loaded file format before and after the conversion for confirmation. The convert() method has a number of overloaded functions but we have utilized the one requiring the name of the log file where comments will be written, the output file format i.e. PDF_A_B, and the action to be taken if some object is not converted properly.

This short example has taught us to convert PDF to PDFA using Python. If you want to learn other types of conversions like converting PDF to XPS, refer to the article on how to convert PDF to XPS in Python.