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Re: PDF tagged or not?

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From: Josh Schroder
Date: Apr 3, 2018 9:24AM

In Acrobat, you should be able to right click on any item in the tags tree, and you will see a menu item labeled "Document is Tagged PDF."

You can see a screen capture of this setting here:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/612353

This setting sets the internal flag that the document is tagged, regardless of whether or not it is. The flag should get set when the tags are added by Word or whatever authoring software, but there are some cases where the flag won't match up with the actual tags that are present.

Josh Schroder
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] PDF tagged or not?

I think there may be an internal flag in the PDF format that identifies a file as tagged or not. If software doesn't play nicely with the PDF format, it may simply omit setting that flag? Or maybe it is missing or has a malformed root tag in the tag tree?

Regardless of the cause, if I recall correctly, to fix this, you should be able to just right-click the error in Acrobat DC and select "fix"?

Phil.


On 2018-04-03 11:05 AM, L Snider wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have run into a PDF that has tags (done in Word and then added pages
> in InDesign or similar) in the Tag Window but the Checker says it
> isn't tagged and the Properties box says there are no tags.
>
> I came across this once way, way back and it could have been that
> someone inadvertently did temporary tags through the set up assistant
> and this caused the weirdness.
>
> I don't think this is the case here, but it could be. I haven't seen
> this for a long time, so I wondered what can cause a tagged PDF to be
> seen as not tagged? Just wondering if there are more reasons now than
> there were years ago,
>
> Cheers
>
> Lisa
> > > archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
>