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Irasema21762708dln9
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October 14, 2024
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Image Only PDFs

  • October 14, 2024
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I use to be able to create image only/flat PDFs before but something has changed and I can no loger make a pdf image only. I have tried many things:

  • I can't print to PDF because the file is restricted
  • I have tried exporting to various image file types and re-pdfing the images
  • I  have printed and scanned as PDF, and various other image types
  • I have tried flattening the file in Bluebeam

Nothing has worked so far. For referene I need to be able to tag these pages as image and it doesn't matter what I do, when I auto tag it still picks up the content. The Reading Order tool won't allow me to select the content and mark as image.

 

Any ideas/suggestions?

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Correct answer try67

If the file is secured and doesn't allow content extraction, Acrobat won't allow you to export the pages as images, as well it should.

Other applications might, though.

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Irasema21762708dln9Author
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October 16, 2024

I answered my own question.

Answer: something changed in Adobe Acrobat, a recent update perhaps, this setting in preferences was enabled (Enhance document accessibility with cloud-based auto-tagging. (adobe.com), once I unchecked it the PDF and tagging started behaving as they previously did allowing me to tag scanned images as figures.

 

JR Boulay
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JR BoulayCommunity Expert
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October 15, 2024

I'm able to print it, then I scanned it as a PDF...

Why are you doing this?

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try67
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try67Community ExpertCorrect answer
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October 14, 2024

If the file is secured and doesn't allow content extraction, Acrobat won't allow you to export the pages as images, as well it should.

Other applications might, though.

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Irasema21762708dln9Author
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October 14, 2024

I'm able to print it, then I scanned it as a PDF, also treid JPG, TIFF, etc. to "flatten" the image, this has always worked for me before but now the tragging is still picks up the content. I even scanned it as a photo, used the advanced setting of "print as image" and it just won't flatten the file. I feel lik in an effort to improve tagging, Adobe has become restrictive when you need to bypass tagging.

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