I have thousands of PDF documents that I've accumulated over the decades for research and documentation purposes. I've recently discovered that a portion of them have become corrupted, probably from copying from one computer to the next over the decades. I just want a simple locally installed GUI utility (on Windows) that will identify corrupt PDF files and give me a list to check. (Given what I've seen today) It would be a stunning feat if this utility would be able to attempt to repair the PDF file, but I won't hold my breath on that feature.
Again, some of these PDF files are decades old. I have very serious doubts that piles of them would validate as being accessible or archive compliant. Hell, piles of them are probably low-res images that are barely legible by today's standards. The point being, sophisticated validation techniques will likely fail thousands and thousands of the documents incorrectly. I simply need to be able to verify that the PDF files open with the content in-tact.
Can you folks help me identify such a utility? FOSS would be nice, but again, I'm not holding my breath on that one, either.
P.S. If such a utility doesn't exist in Windows, I could install a Linux partition somewhere and try it from there. I mean, that's a lot of work for what seems like a simple task, but if I have no other options...
P.P.S The "Similar Questions" feature failed miserably on this task. I searched and found a similar question from 10 years ago, but the solutions there were mostly command line. More to the point, Similar Questions didn't even list it as a suggestion.
P.P.P.S My reason for not wanting to use a command line utility is that I want a GUI where I can select and interact with the detected results. Once I identify a bad result, I want to verify, attempt repair, locate a backup copy… Rinse and repeat. I'm hoping to do this hands on. Praying there aren't thousands of corrupt PDF files (or false positives).
