Word processing files

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Preservation Format

Open Document Format; PDF/A

Access Format

PDF

Normalization tool

Xena or OpenOffice Writer

Comments

• For ODF conversion, Xena may be preferable since it also normalizes embedded objects such as image files and spreadsheets.
• PDF/A normalization of MS Word files is somewhat problematic because best results are achieved from within the native application - i.e. MS Office running in MS Windows. Archivematica does not support either Windows or MS Office since these are proprietary software packages.