[Accessibility] Is there a manual tagging with selection equivalent in the API?

[Sf2511]

Hi!
I know that Adobe Acrobat Pro allows users to add new (accessibility) tags doing a manual selection of the texts, is there something equivalent that can be achieved using the API? 
I have a bunch of PDFs that have no tags and I need to tag them to fix the accessibility, I'd like to write a program to automate and speed up the process because the PDFs are too much to perform the fixing manually. I can NOT use the autotag API because the PDFs are quite complex and the autotag result would be wrong (I tryed using the demo). Is there something I can do? 

Thank you,

Simona

[default3ys0913nb7yg]

I'm... confused. You want an automated solution.. but you want it manual? You can't have it both.

[Sf2511]

I'd likes to know if there is an Api service that i can call in a c# program to add a tag connected to a specific text or area 🤔 the same output achieved with manual remediation (manual selection with tag) but achieved calling the api service (passing the kind of tag and area or something like that) 🤔 i guess it's not an existing festure at the moment but i wanted to be sure 🤔

Let me know if it's clear now 😊

[Raymond Camden · Accepted solution]

Yep, clear and no. 🙂 

[Sf2511]

Ok thanks! Do you think that this feature could be added in the future maybe? 

[Raymond Camden]

I can't speak to future things, and I'm just a tiny pawn in the great organization that is Adobe, so, there's that. 😉 

[Sf2511]

Ok thank you very much anyway 😁💪

[Joel Geraci]

No auto-tag tool application will ever be able to make a PDF file accessible. They can only reduce the amount of work necessary to make it conform to PDF/UA. Some degree of manual remediation will always be required. 

[Sf2511]

I know that the auto tag doesn't work that is why i wanted to know if there is a service that i can call in c# (or similar) and that passing the right information would allow me to achieve the same output i would achive manually 🤔 i would be able to retrive the right information to pass insider the program and with other methods 😊

[Joel Geraci]

"allow me to achieve the same output i would achive manually"

You're describing auto-tag.

[Sf2511]

I don't think so... with auto-tag i would pass a PDF and have a tagged PDF as output but since my PDF are complex the tagging would be wrong (i already tryed this so this is a fact not a possibility ☹️)... instead i know exactly how the tag structure should be, so if i was able to call the api passing the tag created by myself and the area of the text the resulting tagged PDF should be correctly tagged... 

As i said i have hundreds and hundreds of untagged PDF with the same tag structure to add and so i can not fix them manually 😞 but i will fix them programmatically in another way, ever if it will take more time 🙈