Re: PDF accessibility and complex script languages.

On 5 Jan 2016 7:25 am, "Duff Johnson" <duff@duff-johnson.com> wrote:
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> It’s typical for PDF consuming tools that extract or process text to use
ActualText. Software that cannot process ActualText cannot be claimed to
support accessible (i.e., tagged) PDF.
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I need to do more testing i suspect.

Image with ActualText seems to work fine.

Text AND ActualText combination seems to need more testing.  I need to do
more testing of text extraction and searching. Even something as simple as
cutting and pasting from a PDF seems to be problematic.

When I have cut and pasted from a test PDF for instance the operation seems
to occur at the glyph/text level, and not the ActualText.

I guess i need to try alternative software. And map out what would work
best for each language.

Andrew