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Re: Fwd: Title, tags, lang - where are they in a PDF document? Beginning or end?

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From: Corrine Schoeb
Date: May 24, 2017 9:12AM

Thank you to everyone who has responded so far.

I think I need to clarify - this is a scan using code not a physical
scanner. We've developed a scan for our Moodle instance. It can recognize
text vs. an image of text but we are working on refining that scan
further. Large documents take up a lot of cpu/memory so we are thinking we
might be able to limit our scan the first 5-10 pages to see if there is a
title, tags, etc. I'm just not sure where that data is stored - at the
beginning or at the end of the PDF.

I know this is very technical question and maybe obscure but I figured this
might be the right group.


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From: Corrine Schoeb < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Date: Wed, May 24, 2017 at 9:38 AM
Subject: Title, tags, lang - where are they in a PDF document? Beginning or
end?
To: <EMAIL REMOVED>


We are working on creating a scan of PDF documents, some of which are 100+
pages. Rather than scan the full document to find out if it is tagged, has
a title and language we thought we might be able to do the first 5-10 pages
but I'm not sure where the title, tag, lang data is stored in a PDF.

So my question is, are title, tag, lang attributes of a PDF stored at the
beginning of a PDF or at the end?

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Corrine Schoeb
Technology Accessibility Coordinator, ITS
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Corrine Schoeb
Technology Accessibility Coordinator, ITS
610-957-6208

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