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To check that your scan was OCR'd, try copying some text from the document and pasting it into Word. If you can successfully paste the text you copied, your document has been OCR'd, but you should check a few things.:
- If there isn't any text in the document, please open a ticket with the help desk explaining that the Canon copier is not OCRing documents.
- How accurate is the text? If there are significant errors with the accuracy or the reading order, please open a ticket with the help desk and flag the document for the accessibility team.
- Look for how easy or hard a document will be when someone needs to listen to it with assistive technology.
Setting PDF Title, Language, and Outline
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Not all documents can successfully be made accessible. A great deal depends on the quality of the original document (consult this guide from the University of Washington for what makes a high-quality scan). Even if Acrobat successfully translates an image of text to text, it is very important to review the document. Original documents of poor quality, documents that have a lot of notes or underlines, and documents with blurred text may result in inaccurate translations and gibberish. If you find this to be the case, please contact accessibility@swarthmore.edu for assistance in working with your file. |
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The Moodle PDF Accessibility Check or Moodle File Scan is a very useful tool to help determine use as an indicator of how much of your course material is may be friendly to assistive technology. By assistive technology such as we mean tools like Kurzweil, Beeline Reader and Read & Write, VoiceOver, screen readers such as VoiceOver, NVDA and JAWS, and various other tools people might use to help them consume course readings.
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