Category: PDF Remediation

Splitting DTP, PDF remediation, and file preparation across three specialist vendors feels like careful sourcing. It is usually the opposite: three onboarding conversations, three sets of file specifications, three invoices to reconcile, and three places a project can fall through a gap between vendors who each assume the other covered something. Foliage Solutions handles all…

German PDFs fail OCR conversion in ways that generic, language-agnostic tools do not anticipate. Compound words split apart during recognition. Umlauts lose their dots. The Eszett character gets misread as a capital B. None of this is a vendor being careless. It is what happens when an OCR process built for general text meets a language…

PDF remediation software can tag a document and flag missing alt text in seconds. It cannot tell you whether that alt text still makes sense once the document has been translated into four languages, or whether a reading order built for English still holds once German runs 25 percent longer.   Foliage Solutions runs remediation as a…

PDF Remediation for LSPs: Why Accessibility Work Doesn’t Survive Translation  When you hand a remediated PDF to a translation team, the translated PDF starts from zero on accessibility. The language tags are wrong. The reading order does not follow the new text. The alt text is still in the source language, or it is gone…