Questions tagged [tagged-pdf]

Tagged PDF is a form of embedded metadata for PDFs that allows support for bookmarks and copy-and-paste on text, and gives a namespace for Adobe's DOM that is leveraged by such technologies as layers, interactive PDFs, and RichMedia Annotations

Tagged PDF is a form of embedded metadata for PDFs that allows support for bookmarks and copy-and-paste on text, and gives a namespace for Adobe's DOM that is leveraged by such technologies as layers, interactive PDFs, and RichMedia Annotations.

FAQ

  1. What is "Tagged PDF"?
  2. PDF - Are Bookmarks and Hyperlinks equivalent?

PDF generation

  1. Can MikTeX create tagged PDFs?
  2. How to create a tagged PDF from a "complex" XML file
  3. Create destinations for all bookmarks in a PDF file with iText API

Manipulating tagged PDFs

  1. How to read PDF bookmarks programmatically
  2. Recover PDF to LaTeX
  3. Split a PDF by Bookmarks?
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What is "Tagged PDF"?

Can someone please explain what a "Tagged PDF" is, and how it differs from regular, non-tagged PDF? Will tagged PDFs contain special content, such as XML, Rich Media, Javascript, or the like? Which TeX-toolchains generate Tagged PDFs?
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Split a PDF by Bookmarks?

I am to process single PDFs that have each been created by 'merging' multiple PDFs. Each of the merged PDF has the places where the PDF parts start displayed with a bookmark. Is there any way to automatically split this up by bookmarks with a…
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Tagged PDF with PDFBox

Is it possible to create tagged PDF(PDF/UA) with PDFBox? It looks like PDFBox has an API for that (package org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.documentinterchange.taggedpdf), but I can't find any tutorials or code examples. Using the code below, I generated a…
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Create destinations for all bookmarks in a PDF file with iText API

I'd like to write some (java) code that takes a PDF document, and creates named destinations from all of the bookmarks. I think the iText API is the easiest way of doing this, but I have never used the API before. How would you go about writing this…
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Can MikTeX create tagged PDFs?

Tagged PDFs allow for the easy reflow and accessibility of PDFs. It seems like this would be a natural use case for using LaTeX, which advocates content over style. But as far as I can tell, there is no way to create a tagged PDF with MikTeX…
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"Find Tag from Selection" is not working in tagged pdf?

I have tagged a pdf using pdfbox. How I was tagged: Instead of extract text and tagging I am adding mcid's to the existing content stream (both open and closing ex: /p<< MCID 0 >> BDC .. .. .. EMC) and then I am adding that marked content to…
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How to create a tagged PDF from a "complex" XML file

I have a complex XML document. I have used the iText library to create a tagged PDF out of this XML document. I have referred to the examples in the 15th chapter of the iText in Action book but they are confined to a simple XML file having a…
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Metadata in PDF Files

I want to be able to store some plugin-specific data in a PDF so that I can read it back when that PDF is loaded back, without this metadata being visible to the user. How can I put this metadata into the PDF File?
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How do I fix the Tagged Annotations fail/error for accessibility for links using pdfbox java?

Found the solution by using adobe - https://answers.acrobatusers.com/How-I-fix-Tagged-Annotations-fail-error-accessibility-links-q228128.aspx How can I add Link-OBJR (object reference to link annotation) using pdfbox. `PDAnnotationLink…
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How to produce a bilingual tagged-PDF output from Jaspersoft / JRXML?

We're using Jaspersoft iReport Designer to create bilingual PDF outputs—each file contains both English and French text. For accessibility reasons, we'd like to tag each block of text with its appropriate language in the resulting PDF. See PDF19:…
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Tagged PDF using an HTML to PDF Converter such as Winnovative

There are many converter available on the market to create and manipulate PDF file from a simple HTML/CSS page. These tools are very convenient to create quickly some nice PDF files without the hassle of the more complex reporting tools of this…
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Tagged PDF for 508 compliance

How can I edit a tagged PDF with Tags specifically created for 508 compliance?
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Can I tag a PDF programmatically?

Can an unstructured PDF be tagged using any tools/libraries? Only source of tagging a PDF was using Adobe Acrobat or Auto-Tag APIs (Not something which I am looking forward to + not so great results imo) I know the bounding boxes and semantics of…
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How can I test LibreOffice Writer's accessible PDF output?

LibreOffice Writer can export to Tagged PDF. How should I test the accessibility of the resulting document? Maybe something like inspecting the tags that have been added to check they reflect the intended document structure, or perhaps simulating…
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Get tag's related BBox's even though there is no attributes (/A in document catalog structure) related to Layout in PDFBox?

I want to highlight the bbox's of a particular tag when they selected the tag in structure root. For that reason I am able to get the bbox's when the tag contains Attributes like this . But I found in some pdf's even though there is no attributes…
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