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PDF Documents

Sometimes PDFs are nothing more than images that appear to the sighted user as text. Adobe Acrobat Pro provides an easy way for scanning such documents and converting them to text, thus making them accessible.

In Adobe Acrobat Pro, open the document to be converted. From the Tools menu, select “Text Recognition," then "In this file." Allow the program to scan all pages. Earlier versions of Adobe Acrobat Pro provide text recognition but it's under the Document menu. 

Once completed, the document can be saved and, for the most part, will be accessible. To learn about tags and reading order to further enhance accessibility, visit the PDF Accessibility (http://Webaim.org/techniques/acrobat/) portion of WebAim.org. 
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