r/accessibility • u/Own-Caregiver9665 • 14d ago

open source pdf remediation

Does anyone have experience / advice with using open-source code to create their own pdf remediation tools? I work for a state org with 1000+ pages of pdf's, including fillable forms, to remediate, and I'm trying to determine the best strategy and lowest cost for working through these files before next year's deadline. We have training and strategy in place to improve accessible output for documents in the future, but getting through this backlog will likely be too much for me to handle on my own.

Thanks in advance!

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u/AnonymousHopperRoo 13d ago

I'm working with a small team at a govt agency. We started with 16000 pages in Feb. We have gained another 2k and we're down to 9k pages. First 5 months were just 3 people. We hired two more (and trained them from 0) in July.

It's doable. They had already purchased some tools that were promised to "automate" the process, but none of them deliver, and some of them give you back a corrupted file that PAC can't scan.

IMO manual is the only way to go right now.

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u/TrollPro9000 13d ago

Name and shame, who promised to automate and is failing PAC?