How to disable text generations when hovering over pictures in Adobe Reader XI

[eliashassan]

Hi all,

I was wondering if you can disable the pop-up messages of Adobe Reader when I hover over a photo in Adobe Reader XI version 11. E.g. the following pop-up messages appear:

- A picture containing clock, indoor, black, object

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-A close up of a bowl

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- A picture containing indoor, wall, bicycle

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Can you turn this feature off? Most of the time it does not make sense to the content in the picture.

Hope someone can help because I am unable to find it on the internet.

Thanks,

Elias

[Bernd Alheit]

How did you create the PDF files?

[eliashassan]

Thank you for answering Bernd,

I create the PDF files in Power Point (save as, as PDF).

[~graffiti · Accepted solution]

In Powerpoint, it sounds like you would need to remove the alternative text for the images. That's what you are seeing. It's an accessibility thing.

If you don't know how to do that, you'll want to hit up a Powerpoint forum.

[eliashassan]

Excellent.

The text is generated in PowerPoint, called Alt Text.

[SanDG]

The only way i found to resolve this issue was to go to tools -> accesibility -> set alternate text, it will prompt a window that propose to save or edit the alt text.

And then you go through all the images that can have potential alternate text and you delete or edit.

My document had 1295 images but it worked.

Good luck.

[Mike26303533csyw]

Thank you!  This is the only thing that works if you're looking at a PDF that was created by another user.  It would be great if Adobe would give us a way to globally turn off these meaningless auto-generated descriptions for an entire document.  It is quite tedious when you have to do it repeatedly for many PDFs.

[Mary25862679vrhe]

One other method that's a bit faster that we have discovered is putting the PDF in two page scroll view. Going to tools -> prepare for accessibility -> fix reading order -> for each page click clear page structure in the box that comes up. Saves a lot of time versus going through every shape!