PDFCarry

Your first revision in PDFCarry

PDFCarry is a Windows companion to your existing PDF editor. It carries justified accessibility structure and review evidence forward between supported revisions, then shows what still needs checking. It does not turn a validator pass into human approval.

PDFCarry 0.2.3 is available as a 14-day trial from the download on the front page. Subscriptions are bought on the billing page.

Start with the built-in sample

In PDFCarry 0.2.3, choose Open the sample project. It creates a separate synthetic project with two versions, prepared example attestations, and a revised PDF processed by the real engine. Open a reopened item to inspect its reason. The sample banner and exported evidence identify it as synthetic; no person reviewed or certified its example checks. Your own projects are untouched.

The sample demonstrates how the workflow behaves. To evaluate whether it helps your work, use a historical pair of your own supported documents during the trial: a baseline you have already reviewed and a later revision of that same document. Count the work needed to prepare the baseline as well as the work remaining after import.

Start with a representative pair

Use a tagged baseline you have already worked on and a revised export of the same document. Try the synthetic sample PDFs first if you are learning the workflow. Compare the installer's SHA256 with the one shown beside the download before you run it. Your 14-day trial starts at first launch; no card or internet connection is needed for the trial. When it ends, the application stops creating new work; the projects you already have stay open, and you can still validate and export them.

The first release supports born-digital PDF 1.x within 50 MB and 200 pages, including ordinary text, images, links and supported grouped graphics. Complete, uniquely matched simple tables and lists can be reconstructed. Scans, signed or encrypted files, interactive forms and complex or ambiguous structures need other tools. A changed table or uncertain match may correctly refuse reuse.

Record what you actually checked

  1. Create a project from the baseline. Imported tags are not review evidence.
  2. Select the relevant items and checks and record only what was actually completed. The displayed reviewer name is a local label, not a verified digital signature.
  3. Import the revision into that project. Review the retained and reopened checks. Content or layout changes can invalidate earlier checks; matching text alone does not prove that reading order, descriptions or relationships remain correct.
  4. Apply supported corrections, or export for an external editor and reimport the edited file. Reimporting does not silently approve new changes. Use the history to inspect earlier versions; the original PDFs are retained.

Validate and export

Run machine validation and complete the applicable human checks. A PDF/UA-1 machine pass covers machine-checkable rules only. When further work remains, use the export for further review.

The exported ZIP contains the PDF and its evidence manifest. Keep them together. The manifest identifies the exact PDF hash; it does not apply to a different or later edited file.

Activate and manage a subscription

The subscription is bought through the PDFCarry billing page, which the application's Licence controls link to. It is US$349 per year for one reviewer, as a total that includes GST for Australian customers. Stripe hosts payment details; PDFCarry does not receive your full card number. The terms and the refund and cancellation policy set out the rest.

Billing issues two codes with different jobs:

Paid licences are checked periodically and provide up to seven days of verified offline access, capped at the paid-term end. If offline access expires, reconnect and refresh. Viewing and exporting your existing PDFs and evidence remains available even without an active trial or subscription.

To move a seat, deactivate it in the old installation and activate it on the new one. If the old computer is unavailable, billing provides a lost-installation reset once every seven days. A previously verified offline period can remain valid until it expires.

Cancelling renewal keeps access through the paid term. A full refund or unresolved payment dispute can prevent fresh activation.

Installer error codes

The Windows installer supports silent installation with /S. Success returns 0; cancellation returns 1; an unspecified installation failure returns 2. The following errors return without a dialog during silent installation. They do not remove your saved projects.

Backups, updates and support

Close PDFCarry before backing up its data folder, shown in Help and local data. Keep a separate backup copy of the entire folder. Exported evidence packages are useful deliverables but do not replace a complete backup of project history.

Updates arrive as new versioned installers linked from the front page; there is no automatic updater. An installer update preserves project and licence folders, and so does uninstalling the application. Licence storage is protected by your Windows account and should not be copied as a way to transfer a seat.

The support file that the application can download contains application and Windows versions, validator availability, licence state, integrity-issue count and processing limits. It excludes PDFs, filenames, reviewer names, local paths and licence keys. Share a synthetic reproduction where possible; do not send confidential customer PDFs or your project database by default.

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