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From: Marc Solomon
Date: Aug 19, 2016 11:29AM

Hi Angela,
This resource should help you better understand the general process that should be followed to remediate a scanned image PDF: http://www.section508.va.gov/support/tutorials/pdf/1scandocs_1.asp.
Best,
Marc

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Angela French
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Subject: [WebAIM] scanning documents to PDF and accessibility

Hello,
Is it possible for documents to be scanned to PDF and be accessible? We are getting PDF documents to post on our website that have been scanned. They are failing the accessibility scan in Acrobat which sees them as images. How are documents like this remediated?

Do techniques like this create accessible documents: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/scan-documents-pdf.html


Angela French
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Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
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