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[Accessibility] Is there a manual tagging with selection equivalent in the API?

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Hi!
I know that Adobe Acrobat Pro allows users to add new (accessibility) tags doing a manual selection of the texts, is there something equivalent that can be achieved using the API?
I have a bunch of PDFs that have no tags and I need to tag them to fix the accessibility, I'd like to write a program to automate and speed up the process because the PDFs are too much to perform the fixing manually. I can NOT use the autotag API because the PDFs are quite complex and the autotag result would be wrong (I tryed using the demo). Is there something I can do?

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Simona

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Raymond CamdenCorrect answer

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Yep, clear and no. 🙂

Joel Geraci

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No auto-tag tool application will ever be able to make a PDF file accessible. They can only reduce the amount of work necessary to make it conform to PDF/UA. Some degree of manual remediation will always be required.

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I know that the auto tag doesn't work that is why i wanted to know if there is a service that i can call in c# (or similar) and that passing the right information would allow me to achieve the same output i would achive manually 🤔 🤔 i would be able to retrive the right information to pass insider the program and with other methods 😊

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Joel Geraci

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"allow me to achieve the same output i would achive manually"

You're describing auto-tag.

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I'm... confused. You want an automated solution.. but you want it manual? You can't have it both.

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Sf2511Author

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I'd likes to know if there is an Api service that i can call in a c# program to add a tag connected to a specific text or area 🤔 🤔 the same output achieved with manual remediation (manual selection with tag) but achieved calling the api service (passing the kind of tag and area or something like that) 🤔 🤔 i guess it's not an existing festure at the moment but i wanted to be sure 🤔 🤔

Let me know if it's clear now 😊

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Raymond Camden

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Yep, clear and no. 🙂

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