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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Mar 5, 2012 8:48AM

There is a documented hierarchy of tasks for working with PDF documents.

1. Is the document a scanned image? If yes, perform OCR.
2. Does the document have form controls? If yes, add them.
3. Does the document have links? If yes add them (use the Content, create
links from URL's and then manually add any that were not identified. You get
a total number once the automated tool completes. The tool looks for full
web addresses rather than those that start with www.) I think it is in
Content Tools to the right of the document.
4. If you have multimedia in the PDF, add it. It will be an <<Annotation>
Tag and is not accessible but this is the process. If is not accessible even
if you add it later so I made an author's decision to go for the optimized
accessibility in my last book.

Once all of that is done, THEN you Tag the document and make repairs.

Adobe has this in most of their documents without my commentaries on links
and multimedia. :-)

Cheers, Karen