pdf-access makes pdf documents more accessible to screen readers and other assistive technologies.

It uses a toml configuration file to specify a plan, match certain documents, and apply a list of actions to remediate a document.

Here is an example of a toml file that will unlock and remove text that is preventing a screen reader from reading the documents authored by Mom.

Other documents will be trimmed down to a single page compressed.

#----------------- Sources -----------------

[sources.my_pdfs]
in_path = "./originals"
out_path = "./accessible"

#----------------- Plans -------------------

[plans.unlock-compress]
actions = ["clear_encoding_differences"]
# match documents from Mom
metadata_search = { "author" = "Mom" }
passwords = ["c@11-y0ur-m0+h3r", "w3@r-c13@n-und3rw34r"]
post_process = ["gs-compress"]

[plans.compress-and-trim]
actions = ["single-page"]
# match everything else
metadata_search = {}
post_process = ["gs-compress"]

#----------------- Actions -----------------

[actions.clear_encoding_differences]
name = "Clear encoding differences"
function = "clear-encoding-differences"

[actions.single-page]
name = "Keep one page"
function = "keep-pages"
args.pages = [0]

To run the plan, you would use the following command:

pdf-access config.toml

The files in the ./originals directory would be processed and the results would be placed in the ./accessible directory.

pip install git+https://github.com/felddy/pdf-access.git

We welcome contributions! Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for details.

This project is in the worldwide public domain.

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