Adobe PDF Accessibility Auto-Tag API

Our API makes it easy to scale PDF accessibility. Auto-tag content more accurately with our Adobe Sensei-powered API and ensure every document is easy to navigate when accessed with screen readers and other reading devices.

Key features of Adobe PDF Accessibility Auto-Tag API

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Highly accurate content tagging

Automatically tag tables, paragraphs, lists, and headings to improve the reading experience of native and scanned PDFs with assistive technologies.

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Reading order identification

Identify the logical flow of information, even with multiple columns and elements across multiple pages.

Try the PDF Accessibility Checker API

Explore our latest API designed to check PDF accessibility according to the machine-verifiable requirements of PDF/UA and WCAG 2.0, generating an accessibility report.

Benefits of PDF Accessibility Auto-Tag API

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Improve PDF accessibility for all users

Improve the user experience for all stakeholders, including employees, customers, citizens, or students who leverage screen readers with accurate auto-tagging - this applies to documents created internally as well as externally or by third parties.

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Remediate easily at scale

Tagging PDFs can often be slow, manual, and error prone. Make your documents more inclusive at scale and avoid picking and choosing which documents to remediate.

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Move toward compliance with greater ease

Automation leads to more efficient remediation. Reduce legal risk while lowering the overhead and resources you may need to move toward compliance with certain accessibility standards.

What is PDF tag structure?

To read a document's text and accurately format it for assistive technologies like screen readers and other text-to-speech tools, a PDF must have document structure tags that define the reading order. Identifying headings, paragraphs, sections, tables, and other page elements is necessary to achieve accessible, readable PDFs.

The API tags untagged PDFs, tags partially tagged PDFs from scratch while maintaining any existing Alt-text, and offers a tagging report for both.

Technical use cases

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Improve accessibility of PDF backlogs

Use the API to improve the accessibility of existing backlogs of native or scanned PDFs at scale in minutes.

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Accelerate accessibility workflows

Add the API to document automation workflows so all new PDFs or third-party content are automatically tagged from the get-go.

For use across industries

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Government

Ensure important public information is accessible to all citizens.

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Education

Make educational content more accessible for students, teachers, and staff.

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Financial services

Improve the accessibility of important financial documents such as statements, insurance cliams, and more for customers.

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Retail and E-commerce

Enhance user experience by improving the accessibility of PDFs related to important products and services for customers.

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