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Re: scanning documents to PDF and accessibility

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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Aug 19, 2016 11:32AM

I don't find the on-board OCR in Acrobat to be useful. I first take a scanned document into ABBYY PDF Transformer and make the text searchable. I then take the document back into Acrobat and then perform the OCR. This gives me fewer errors. I can then work with the document, first adding links or form controls and then Tag the document. Once the document is tagged, I can perform any remediations and add any Alt Text.

Cheers, Karen

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Angela French
Sent: August 19, 2016 1:24 PM
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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
Internet/Intranet Specialist
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
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