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From: Brandon Keith Biggs
Date: Dec 13, 2018 6:46AM

Hello,
Pandoc sadly does not produce tagged PDFs. It uses pdflatex to produce pdfs
which does not do any kind of tagging.
Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>;


On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 4:37 AM Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> On 13/12/2018 09:46, Mikołaj Rotnicki wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Does anyone know or recommend any PDF generator-library that could be
> > easily implemented on a website and could generate accessible (tagged)
> PDFs
> > from that website content?
>
> I've not tried it yet myself, but it appears that Pandoc
> https://pandoc.org/ is able to output PDF/A (see the manual, and
> https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/3215#issuecomment-386866301). It
> should be possible to convert the website's content/HTML to PDF/A with
> this (I've only used Pandoc in a very limited way some months ago to
> convert Markdown to HTML and Word, so don't have direct experience in
> HTML to PDF conversion with it, but it should be straightforward enough).
>
> P
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