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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Dec 13, 2018 7:30AM

As per the links I had in my email - switching to the ConTeXt writer
engine (rather than pdflatex) apparently allows generation of PDF/A

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On 13/12/2018 13:46, Brandon Keith Biggs wrote:
> 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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