[Athen] is there a service (for fee) that is able to convert inaccessible PDF's?

[Ron Stewart]

This is a very difficult process to complete, I have been working on some
sample documents from a vendor and for even minimally complex stuff you are
actually better of turning them into something like HTML or DAISY.  The
complex image and even text based PDF's need to be totally reprocessed
(OCR-forward) and at this point I have not found a satisfactory remediation
product.  The vendors make a lot of claims, and I believe I have looked at
all of them in a recent project, none of them stand up if you are looking at
remediating existing files.

You might want to contact DigiLife Media or T-Base communications out of
Canada to see what they will charge.  Is this not something Badger is
willing to take on?

Ron Stewart

-----Original Message-----
From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On
Behalf Of Alice Anderson
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 12:51 PM
To: Access Technologists in Higher Education Network
Subject: [Athen] is there a service (for fee) that is able to convert
inaccessible PDF's?

ATHEN

<please excuse cross posting>

Does anyone know of a service (for fee) that is capable of converting
inaccessible PDF's - those that are images, need reading order repair,
etc....

a service (for fee) that is capable of converting in a timely manner   
quality accessible documents?


                Alice Anderson
TECHNOLOGY ACCESSIBILITY PROGRAM
   Division of Information Technology (DoIT)
       University of Wisconsin-Madison
      1210 West Dayton Street (3124)
              Madison, WI 53706

           Telephone: 608.262.2129




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