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Re: HTML to tagged PDF conversion, with alt text and other attributes?

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From: Paul Bohman
Date: Oct 24, 2013 11:42AM

Thank you! This does look promising. I did a quick test and at least it
saved the alt attribute, so that's already a huge step in the right
direction. For anyone else who may be curious, this tool doesn't seem to
have any kind of graphic user interface. It's a web developer tool, meant
to be installed on a web server, or I suppose you can run it locally too,
which is what I did, but I had to use the command line. It also integrates
with Java, PHP, Ruby, Perl, and other languages. This may in fact be
exactly what I want. I'll have to do some more testing before I know for
sure. But yes, thank you. This seems to be much better than everything else
I was finding.


Paul Bohman, PhD
Director of Training
Deque Systems, Inc
www.deque.com
703-225-0380, ext.121


On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Olaf Drümmer < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> you may want to have a look at PDFreactor 6 from RealObjects:
> http://www.realobjects.com/products/pdfreactor/
> I do know that they turn HTML tags and other information into tags in PDF
> (to support accessibility) but I do now know exactly the extent to which
> they do it, e.g. whether they cover all the relevant attributes etc. I
> suggest to simply get in touch with them and tell them what you are looking
> for. Then if they claim they have what you need, you can download samples
> or try their software.
>
> Olaf
>
>
>
> Am 24 Oct 2013 um 14:40 schrieb Paul Bohman < <EMAIL REMOVED> >:
>
> > Those are all good questions, but in my case they have already been
> > resolved, or at least I should say I have taken that into account in the
> > planning process. I have one set of styles for screen, and another for
> > print and PDF. The print styles strip the web navigation. Wherever there
> > are interactive elements, I use conditional scripting to insert
> screenshots
> > and/or text substitutes.
> >
> > Basically, I want to use a single document source in HTML format that can
> > be accessed for various purposes, including printing or accessible ebook
> > via PDF.
> >
> >
> > Paul Bohman, PhD
> > Director of Training
> > Deque Systems, Inc
> > www.deque.com
> > 703-225-0380, ext.121
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Olaf Drümmer < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Paul,
> >>
> >> out of curiosity - what would you need this for?
> >>
> >> And what would you expect, given that the typical HTML page comes as
> part
> >> of a page structure, pages contain navigation, etc. whereas your typical
> >> PDF document has all the content in one go, needs less navigation,
> because
> >> some of the navigation is inherent to the file format and/or you have
> >> different mechanism, like bookmarks. Would you expect that several HTMLp
> >> ages are converted at the same time, and that based on linking you
> would go
> >> from PDF to the other by clicking on an entry in some kind of navigation
> >> bar that existed in the HTML but also is present in the PDF converted
> from
> >> the HTML?
> >>
> >> And what about dynamic features, like accordions or sliders or …
> >>
> >> And last but not least: would expect you result to match styling in the
> >> HTML as much as possible, or are you looming at a styling more suitable
> for
> >> a static, page based medium like PDF?
> >>
> >>
> >> Olaf
> >>
> >>
> >> Am 24 Oct 2013 um 02:17 schrieb Paul Bohman < <EMAIL REMOVED> >:
> >>
> >>> I've been searching all over for a tool that convert HTML to tagged PDF
> >> in
> >>> a way that retains all tags and attributes. So far I haven't found any.
> >>> Adobe's tool creates the tags accurately, but it does not retain any of
> >> the
> >>> attributes. No alt text, no table header scopes or ids, and so on. Is
> >> there
> >>> a tool that can convert an accessible HTML file into an accessible PDF
> >> file?
> >>>
> >>> Paul Bohman, PhD
> >>> Director of Training
> >>> Deque Systems, Inc
> >>> www.deque.com
> >>> 703-225-0380, ext.121
> >>> > >>> > >>> > >>
> >> > >> > >> > >>
> > > > > > >
> > > >