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Re: Untagged PDF doc with table structure

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Feb 18, 2015 5:48AM

It is my experience too that Adobe Reader can add a temporary set of tags to untagged document

Acrobat Pro can also apply OCR.

Jon

> On Feb 18, 2015, at 7:37 AM, Lynn Holdsworth < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Apologies if PDF accessibility is off topic. If so is there a list
> that covers this?
>
> But if not ...
>
> I open a PDF document, and Adobe Reader alerts me that it's untagged.
>
> So I begin to peruse it using JAWS, and come across a table whose
> structure is robust enough for me to move around it using the JAWS
> table keystrokes.
>
> Does this mean there *are* tags in the document after all? Or has
> Adobe Reader used heuristics to add tags to improve the doc's
> accessibility, since my settings flag up that I'm using a
> screenreader?
>
> I tried to download a trial version of Acrobat Pro so as to examine
> the document structure, but the download assistant seems inaccessible.
>
> Thanks as always, Lynn
> > >