Image Only PDFs

[Irasema21762708dln9]

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?

[try67 · Accepted solution]

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.

[Irasema21762708dln9]

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.

[JR Boulay]

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

Why are you doing this?

[Irasema21762708dln9]

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.