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From: Cliff Tyllick
Date: Feb 16, 2013 9:28PM

Tim and Silvia,

I love the PDF Accessibility Checker (PAC), particularly for these two reasons:
* Its explanation of the source of an error and the repair needed is so much clearer than the information most people can glean from Acrobat's accessibility checker.
* Whenever a flaw in the PDF causes the checking process to fail, PAC will give you results for everything it was able to review up to the point where the flaw caused the failure. By contrast, Acrobat's checker simply crashes. By studying the features that PAC was checking when it crashed, I have been able to find and fix whatever caused the crash and then complete the check.
Having said that, I must point out that you can't fix the problems with PAC. You must either fix them in the source document—and then create a new PDF—or use another tool (Acrobat, for example) to repair the PDF itself.

It's a great checker. I've found it to be a great tool for introducing others to the process of reviewing and repairing PDFs. But it is only a checker, not a repair tool.

Cheers!

Cliff