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Always use PDF/A-1a (Tagged PDF) which contains the text in accessible format. For many governments this a legal requirement. With tagged PDF it's easy to get
by oever 6y ago
Always use PDF/A-1a (Tagged PDF) which contains the text in accessible format. For many governments this a legal requirement.
With tagged PDF it's easy to get the text out.
- brodo 6y agoLaTeX does not support PDF/A btw.
- ejfiskbkkd 6y agoNot by default, but the pdfx package enables this, Peter Selinger has a nice guide: https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/pdfa/ https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/pdfa/
- ivan_ah 6y agoThe linked instructions cover PDF/A-1b (have plain text version of contents), but Tagged PDF is more than that -- it's about encoding the structure of the document. There is a POC package for producing Tagged PDF here https://github.com/AndyClifton/accessibility https://github.com/AndyClifton/accessibility but it's not a complete solution yet. Here is an excellent review article that talks about all the other options for producing Tagged PDFs from LaTeX (spoiler — there is no solution currently): https://umij.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/the-sad-state-of-pdf-accessibility-of-latex-documents/ https://umij.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/the-sad-state-of-pdf-a... via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24444427 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24444427
- ulucs 6y agoIt's not automatic, but also not that difficult to support https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/pdfa/#3 https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/pdfa/#3
- amai 6y ago"The sad state of PDF-Accessibility of LaTex Documents" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24444427 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24444427
- PostPlummer 6y ago> For many governments this a legal requirement. As in Healthcare.
- mmm_grayons 6y agoI'm confused as to what this comment means. Would you please clarify it?
- jtbayly 6y agoAs (it also is) in healthcare.
- 3131s 6y agohttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/as_in https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/as_in
- mmm_grayons 6y agoIs he implying that providing healthcare is a legal requirement for most governments? If so, that seems off-topic.
- dqv 6y agoThey are saying that, like many governments, healthcare requires the use of the PDF/A-1a standard.
- Joker_vD 6y agoYou mean, like many (non-US) governments, (the US) healthcare requires the use of the PDF/A-1a? It's just a somewhat bizarre contraposition: "Like many animals, Helianthus annuus needs water to survive". Wait, but it's a plant, right? "Yes, and it needs water, just like animals".
- dqv 6y ago
- dwd 6y agoI'm surprised no ever uses XDP. A flattened XFA/XDP PDF (no interactive elements) is more or less a PDF/A.
- jooize 6y agoDo popular tools support creating XDP PDF?
- fomine3 6y agoIt's better format but still less accessible for machine translators. Most translating system don't support PDF or only limited support.