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Accessibility Inspector

Accessibility Inspector shows structure, tagging, text-layer, and reading-order issues before remediation work begins.

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Problem

Teams need to know whether a PDF is standards-ready, suspicious, malformed, or safe to archive before they mutate it.

Use

Run read-only inspections and standards checks that return findings, verdicts, and exportable evidence.

Evidence plan

What this unlocks

  • Tagged PDF and reading-order quality audit
  • Inspect without modifying the source document
  • Better package access keeps the path explicit

Workflow

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Simple pathForm W-9

Quick OCR and field check

Turn a scanned form into a searchable PDF and verify the obvious fields before routing it.

  1. 1Upload the W-9
  2. 2Run OCR
  3. 3Inspect detected text and form regions
  4. 4Save a searchable copy

Tool chain

OCRForms Ops StudioSet Metadata Studio
Searchable PDFField review notesClean source metadata
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Complex pathAttention Is All You Need

Knowledge and publishing workflow

Extract tables, cluster findings, improve accessibility metadata, convert to archival format, and attach a provenance record.

  1. 1Extract tables and figures
  2. 2Cluster recurring concepts
  3. 3Inspect reading order and metadata
  4. 4Convert to PDF/A
  5. 5Run preflight
  6. 6Export provenance

Tool chain

Extract TablesFinding ClustersAccessibility InspectorPDF to PDF/AStandards PreflightProvenance Ledger
Table exportFinding clustersAccessibility worklist
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Inputs & outputs

Accepted formats
pdf
Produced formats
report

Common use cases

  • Triage PDF/UA issues
  • Identify missing tags or alt text
  • Create remediation worklists for publishing teams

Workflow steps

  1. 1Run the inspector on the current PDF
  2. 2Review findings by severity and page
  3. 3Open remediation tools or export the findings

Outputs

  • Findings report
  • Risk or standards verdict
  • Evidence bundle

Review checks

  • Group findings by severity
  • Route failures into remediation tools
  • Attach reports to audit or review records

API

Endpoint family: /v1/forensics, /v1/preflight, /v1/reports
POST/v1/documents/uploadPOST/v1/ocr/{document_id}GET/v1/jobs/{job_id}/downloadPOST/v1/processing/extract-tables/{document_id}POST/v1/forensics/findings/clusterPOST/v1/processing/to-pdfa/{document_id}
  • Inspector jobs are read-only and safe for validation pipelines.
  • Use exported findings as QA evidence for public publishing workflows.
Integration overview

Limits

Availability
Included in Better
Readiness
beta
Automation
Single-document workflow

Confirm entitlement, input requirements, and deployment fit in the package and API documentation before you automate this capability.

Integration overview

Evidence

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Evidence

Redaction verification

3 API

Evidence that sensitive text was removed from the generated PDF rather than covered by a visual overlay.

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Evidence

Preflight reports

3 API

Standards, accessibility, metadata, and archival checks packaged as a reviewable publishing report.

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Evidence

Evidence bundles

3 API

A packet of generated files, findings, screenshots, route history, and linked source documents for audits or handoffs.

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Evidence

Decision logs

3 API

Reviewer choices, comments, citations, approvals, and exceptions captured alongside the document workflow.

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Public example workflows

Integration overview
Simple

Quick OCR and field check

Form W-9

Turn a scanned form into a searchable PDF and verify the obvious fields before routing it.

Proof artifacts

Searchable PDF, Field review notes

Complex

Knowledge and publishing workflow

Attention Is All You Need

Extract tables, cluster findings, improve accessibility metadata, convert to archival format, and attach a provenance record.

Proof artifacts

Table export, PDF/A artifact

Roles and use cases

Publishing and accessibility teams

Accessibility / Publishing

Remediate, inspect, and validate accessible deliverables.

Connected tools

Accessibility (PDF/UA), PDF to PDF/A, Standards Preflight

Generated artifact: Accessibility inspectionVerification result: veraPDF validation result

Governance and compliance teams

Compliance / Audit

Validate standards, signatures, audit trails, and retention posture.

Connected tools

Standards Preflight, Trust Chain Validation, Retention + Redaction

Preflight report: Standards preflight reportVerification result: Trust-chain verdict

Security teams

Security / IT

Control self-hosted processing, active content, and data paths.

Connected tools

Sanitize, JavaScript Control, Codec Policy

Review report: X-ray reportGenerated artifact: Parser diff scan