Part 1: PDF Accessibility Basics – Remediating Scanned PDFs (Digital Accessibility Webinar)

Scanned PDFs arrive as flat images — no text, no structure, and nothing for a screen reader to announce. In the first part of this series, Rachel focuses on the very first step of the remediation process: running Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in Adobe Acrobat Pro. Attendees will watch OCR applied to both a scanned page and to images of text, then learn how to review the recognized output for accuracy. The session covers what OCR handles well, where it commonly falls short, and why recognized text always requires a manual testing pass before any tagging work begins. Rachel will also demonstrate PAC 2026's Screen Reader Preview as an essential quality check for confirming what that text actually delivers to assistive technology. Join Rachel Reeves from Access Ingenuity to learn how to run OCR on scanned documents and verify the results before moving into tagging.

• Demonstrate how to use Adobe Acrobat Pro’s Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Tool on a scanned page and on images of text.
• Review the limitations and manual testing required after using OCR.
• Highlight how using PAC 2026 Screen Reader Preview is an essential quality check tool for these documents.