WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: Fixing OCR issues in PDF with Adobe Acrobat Pro

for

From: Jonathan Avila
Date: May 15, 2021 4:34PM

Thanks for the tips Phil and Karen, the preflight feature to make layers works well for getting the incorrect text and you can also select the text in the document and press control+c to get the incorrect text as well - but I was still not successful with any of your tips to edit only the hidden text. Re-OCRing the page and turning on review recognized text made no difference - it grays out the text and doesn't seem to make a difference - clicking around doesn't allow me to edit any of the other text. Using the edit text feature won't work as it changes the visual appearance of the text. When I re-OCR'd I even selected searchable exact text hoping that it might work better but no luck.

I agree that actualText is not meant for this and also has the affect of hiding the visual rectangle from some assistive technologies. In this case it's not well supported on mobile so it's not an option for several reasons!

Best Regards,

Jonathan