[Athen] Adobe Acrobat Pro 2020

[Statham III, Otis]

Hi Andrea,

The only way that I can see to get an almost fully accessible properly tagged pdf is the use Abby FineReader to change the inaccessible PDF into a word document and create it
With accessibility in mind. Then export that to a PDF and check for empty tags and any other issues. It seems to me to be the best move if accessibility (i.e., proper tags) are your priority.
Otis

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99% of the time these days we're making Word documents from PDF files, but if we needed to make accessible PDFs I think it's possible to do in ABBYY, you just do it differently. If you pull a PDF into the OCR part of the program you can tag areas as text, image, tables, etc., and you can choose the reading order for all the elements on a page. Those SHOULD save as accessible PDF elements if you then export in the right format. This is not something I've tested, but the company does claim you can make fully compliant PDF-UA documents using their software. https://pdf.abbyy.com/blog/pdf-ua/

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Subject: Re: [Athen] Adobe Acrobat Pro 2020

I'll check again but the last time I tried to create a tagged PDF from ABBYY FineReader, it didn't always recognize lists and there was no tool to identify them.

I'm also not sure that you can view the Tags Tree in FineReader?

Cheers, Karen

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We use ABBYY Finereader as an OCR program, and it also comes with a very good PDF reader/editor. I would recommend looking into that.

-Andi :)

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Subject: [Athen] Adobe Acrobat Pro 2020

Dear All,

Hope your semester is going well.  We use Adobe Acrobat Pro 2020 daily producing alternative text.  It seems that they are phasing out Adobe Acrobat Pro 2020.  What alternatives are you using instead.

Thanks

Lorraine
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