A scanned PDF is just that, a scanned image of a document that is saved as a PDF. Adobe also has an app called Adobe Scan that allows you to scan a document to PDF using your smart phone. Scanned PDFs are missing tags. Tags provide screen readers with the coding to read the text … Continue reading Creating Accessible Scanned PDFs
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Understading what document tags are and what they do is essential to creating PDFs that are accessible.
Not all PDFs are created equal. For example, when scanning a paper document to a PDF format. Scanned documents are not readable by screen readers without some accessibility remediation. Once a document is scanned it needs to be tagged to be considered accessible. Tagging is process of adding computer coding that provides screen readers with … Continue reading Enhance Scanned Documents
Turn paper documents into electronic files without a scanner.
