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The tip of the night for February 12, 2016 was on the free program, Agent Ransack. A new version of the same software, FileLocator Lite, can be downloaded here. File Locator Lite, has the same functionality as Agent Ransack, but the real inside tip is that FileLocator Pro allows you to run several types of searches that the Lite version does not. FileLocator Pro can run searches on Outlook .pst files, container files in the .zip, .rar, .7z formats, and also allows you to search by hash values.
You can download a free graphic file viewer for Windows at http://www.irfanview.com/ . The viewer contains a number of helpful features, allowing you to swap colors:
. . . [with the use of the free plug-in] create PDF images :
. . . and it also functions as a Hex editor.
Preforma is a project co-funded by the European Union that makes available veraPDF, software which can confirm whether or not PDF file is in an archivable PDF/A format.
The software can be downloaded here:
Extract the files from the zip file which downloads and click on the 'verapdf-install.bat' file. This will run an installation wizard for the veraPDF software.
In the folder the software installs in, find the file named, 'verapdf-gui.bat' and double-click on it. A Java based program will run. Click 'Choose PDF' to select the PDF you want to check. Then select the PDF archive format you want the software to check for. Click 'Execute' when you're ready.
The software can generate a validation report which you show the aspects of the PDF which do not comply with the requirements for the PDF/A format.
