[Athen] Adobe Acrobat Pro 2020

[chagnon at pubcom.com]

Quote: "We use Adobe Acrobat Pro 2020 daily producing alternative text.  It
seems that they are phasing out Adobe Acrobat Pro 2020." End Quote

 

Is there a reason why you're using an out-of-date version of Acrobat Pro?

Recent releases have greatly improved the utilities for accessible PDFs:

-     Improved AutoTag utility (still not great, but it's very useful for
simple text/headings documents).

-     Updated accessibility checker.

-     Less-glitchy Alt-Text utility.

-     Improved and updated tools in the Preflight section which can identify
and correct technical problems (like artifacting Non-Struct elements and
embedding fonts).

 

Note: version 2020 is 4 years old, and Adobe and other software
manufacturers drop support for software after 3-4 years. You can still use
it, of course, but there will be no ability to reinstall the old version on
another computer, nor will you receive software updates from Adobe.

 

ABBYY Fine Reader is a fabulous utility.

But:

1.      It can't do half of what Acrobat Pro and 3rd party programs can do
to correct PDFs and Word documents.

2.      Any time you use any OCR tool from any vendor, you risk having
mis-identification of the text, such as missing spaces, conjoined words, and
mis-read words and numbers. It will look OK to sighted users, but screen
reader and TTS software will present something less than correct to the end
user.

 

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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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