Acrobat Autotag Form Fields not working

Hi folks,

I'd never come cross this issue until today: autotag the doc seemed to work on a few of the form fields but not all of them. For the untagged ones, autotag form fields didn't help, and even marking them using the RO panel seemed fruitless.

Then I stumbled upon https://ode.instructure.com/courses/228/pages/tagged-form-fields, which includes a tab labeled "Use Find Tag," and that did it: basically the same trick you use to fix untagged links: Tags panel > Find... > Unmarked annotations. The untagged form fields show up in that search, so all you have to do is tag them individually as "Form," and that seems to stick.

It's definitely a clunky and counterintuitive workaround (if a link and a form field and an annotation are all considered "annotations," maybe we need to update the labels?), and it's of course super time-consuming if you've got lots of untagged fields, but it seems to work when all else fails.  

Cheers!

Hey Tim!

Thank you for reaching out.

As per your description above, the "Autotag form fields" feature does not work.

Could you please check if the feature does not work with any PDF or with some particular PDF? Share the sample file  and the steps you do with us so we can check it on our end

Please share the Acrobat and OS version you are using currently. 

Let us know if you need any help.

Thanks,

Meenakshi