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ideaism
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November 12, 2025
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Automatically extract footnotes <note> from p-tags <p> in PDF – Accessibility

  • November 12, 2025
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I exported a PDF from InDesign that needs to be digitally accessible. The problem is that Adobe InDesign places all footnotes (note) in a p-tag (p). You can, of course, manually extract the footnotes from the p-tag in Acrobat. But it's a document with almost 100 footnotes, so that would be a lot of manual work.

Is there a way to do this automatically? For example, with a (preflight) script? I hope so 😉

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Frans v.d. Geest
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 13, 2025

Sadly you can  not automate this in Acrobat, you will need additional software to, what is called 'Level up'. AxesPDF and PDFix both can do this for you, but it will bring the cost of additional software...

ideaism
ideaismAuthor
Participant
November 20, 2025

Thanks. That's a lot of money to fix a InDesign bug 🪲🤣

Mike Witherell
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 13, 2025