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Re: HTML/CSS-to-PDF-engines that Produce Tagged PDFs

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From: chagnon
Date: Apr 1, 2019 9:13AM

First, PDFLib makes excellent PDF tools.
Second, no automated tool can make a perfectly accessible PDF. Still needs a trained human to review and test the PDF.

Any automated tool can tag content in a PDF.
The problems arise when the tags need to be assessed: are they the correct tags for the content (such as all P tags without any heading tags)? Are they in a logical reading order? Only a human can verify these items.

Artificial intelligence isn't very developed or intelligent at this stage of the industry, and every automated tool uses A I to autotag a file.

--Bevi Chagnon
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