Scanning to PDF/A on Linux

Posted by Nicolas Raoul on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Nicolas Raoul
Published on 2010-06-09T09:34:56Z Indexed on 2010/06/09 9:42 UTC
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PDF/A is one of the best formats to archive my documents.

What Linux software would allow me to scan documents to PDF/A ?

A PNG?PDF/A or TIFF?PDF/A tool would be fine too.

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