Upgrade Alternate Text Creator – auto summaries of tables for PDF/UA
Michael Karbe is CEO of Actino Software and has been a member of the PDF Association since its founding in 2006. His company supports organizations and institutions in digitizing processes using PDF. Through sales and development of a wide variety of applications from specialised partners, Actino Software is very familiar … Read more
Alternate Text Creator is a server application to automatically create alternate texts for images and graphics in accessible PDF by using AI services. The PDF/UA standard requires this kind of descriptions and forces organisations to enhance their documents accordingly.
The newest upgrade of Alternate Text Creator also supports the creation of summaries for tables. The app detects a tagged table, sends this object with a custom prompt to the AI API and saves the resulting text into the PDF. This task is very time consuming when done manually, Alternate Text Creator completes the job in seconds without any user interaction. Target group are all corporate customers, service providers or government bodies who publish standards compliant accessible documents.
Actino Software GmbH’s goal is to assist businesses and institutions with the implementation and use of the PDF standard. The company has been developing and marketing applications for creating and processing PDF since the start of the PDF revolution in the early 90s. Actino Software is also a distributor and…
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