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Re: scanning documents to PDF and accessibility

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From: Jamous, JP
Date: Aug 19, 2016 11:31AM

That's always been an issue. That is why JAWS came out with the OCR engine for PDF files.

Do yourself a favor. Open a Microsoft Word and start typing those pages. Lastly, save it as a PDF file.

That's the only way to making it accessible by screen readers.

Remember, PDF is made to house images, sounds and videos. To save yourself most of the work, scan the pages into an OCR software like Kurzweil and edit the pages to be presentable and free of unrecognizable characters. You can save the document as RTF and open it with Word for further proof reading and styling before conversion to PDF.




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Jean-Pierre Jamous
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UI Accessibility Team

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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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