Images have self-generated pop-ups when converted to PDF

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November 22, 2019
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I have created a PDF (from MS Word) which contains text and images. The images were taken on my smartphone and inserted into Word. There are no tags or properties that have any 'layman's' description of the content of the images (either when standalone images or after insertion into Word), but once I have saved the Word document as a PDF and open it in Acrobat, if I hover over the images a pop-up shows with a brief generic description (it has detected some trees, so has added "A close-up of a tree - Description automatically generated") - I can't see where this is happening or how to stop it. Any help appreciated.

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Correct answer maxwithdax

None of these answers are actually addressing the Post's original question:

How can I turn off these automatic suggested alt text.

In Word or PowerPoint go to:

Click Review
Click the dropdown for Check Accessibility
Select Options: Accessibility
Uncheck Automatic Alt Text

maxwithdax

Correct answer

Community Expert

None of these answers are actually addressing the Post's original question:

How can I turn off these automatic suggested alt text.

In Word or PowerPoint go to:

Click Review
Click the dropdown for Check Accessibility
Select Options: Accessibility
Uncheck Automatic Alt Text

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Michael23601615vi9b

Participant

When saving as a PDF, instead of using the "Export" option to create a PDF, select "Save As> Browse>" then select PDF. Before saving, click the "Options" button, go to "Include non-printing information" and deselect "document structures tags for accessibility". This should do the trick!

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Imesh34475585lb7h

Participant

I am having the same problem. but the problem is I don't have the source files (word or PowerPoint). this happens in my tutes which I get from my teacher. he provides only the PDF file. images in those PDFs have self-generated description popups. that is very annoying. I just need to turn off those popups. please give me a solution.

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DebT69

Participant

If you're having accessibility issues with documents you should be able to have this resolved by Admin or via the Disability Service at your institution.

Joel Geraci

Community Expert

Word is automatically adding "Alt text" to the image for accessibility purposes. When you convert to PDF through Acrobat, the Alt Text gets added to the image and produces the rollover you are seeing. You can either delete the Alt Text from the image in Word, or you can deselect the option in the Create PDF preference to add accessibility tags.

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Quwania

Participant

I'm having the same issue. I created a document in MS Word -- with text only. No images. Once completed, I copied all of the text and pasted it into my PDF. Now, when I scroll across the words it says

"A screenshot of a cellphone.

Description automatically generated."

Can anyone tell me how to remove this?