[Athen] Rec's for PDF remediation on a giant scale

[Joshua Hori via athen-list]

DocAccess has been looking very interesting. They not only use AI for alt tags but also integrate with AIRA.io to provide human audio descriptions of images.

Best,

Joshua

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Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2026 at 8:16 AM
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Subject: Re: [Athen] Rec's for PDF remediation on a giant scale

So far everyone I've looked at will do large-scale projects, but not write alt text (though they'll include it if you write it). I used Allyant for outsourcing PDFs at the time.

Since I'm feeling snarky....why not just dump them in an ABBYY hot folder and call it a day? They're not going to make accessible STEM PDFs anyway, so why waste time finding the best option? 🙃


Sagan Wallace

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I hope everyone's semester has gotten off to a bang-up start!

A department on my campus has a enormous stockpile of scientific/engineering-type PDFs that are publicly available, and that department wants to undertake turning them all into accessible documents.  Yes, they really want to do this, and first they asked me if I wanted to take on the project.

No thanks.

So I'm looking for recommendations for any large-scale PDF remediation companies that could do this kind of work.   Please and thanks.

Susan Kelmer
Alternate Format Production Program Manager
Disability Services
Division of Student Life
T 303 735 4836
www.colorado.edu/disabilityservices<http://www.colorado.edu/disabilityservices>

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