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From: Josh Schroder
Date: Dec 4, 2017 8:39AM

As others have said, it's a highly variable process, but I've found that the toughest PDFs that I usually come across (containing fillable forms, no structure, layout tables, no alt-text, etc.) typically take somewhere around 1 hour per page, give or take.

For pure-text documents, I can probably do somewhere around 5 minutes per page, sometimes less.

I'm also a big proponent of CommonLook PDF. It is expensive, but it really speeds things up and reduces the frustration of dealing with the inefficient workflows in Acrobat. If you do this work often, and you consider the cost of your labor per hour, it can potentially be a really good value.

Josh Schroder
Web Administrator II
Office of Strategic Communications
Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation
(512) 936-8937