![]() You cannot copy and paste text from a scanned document into a Google Doc, but you can with OCR’d text. ![]() This OCR’d digital text is also recognizable by other digital text authoring programs like MSWord, Google Docs, or the like. This means OCR encodes the text and then a digital tag is applied to the now encoded text that allows assistive technology to read it. So how do you make those accessible? The scanned pages require Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to convert them into readable digital text. They can only read text that is digitally tagged as “text.” That means a scanned document is completely inaccessible. A picture cannot be “read” by assistive technology such as screen readers or Braille displays. Scanned text is not actually digital text, it is a picture of text. ![]() Assistive technology can’t read a scanned PDF Maybe a few times… And right, yes, they are crooked on the page. ![]() Worse, there are old scanned documents that were faxed. And some of those have to be posted on the internet. Old, scanned documents that need to be kept for what feels like forever. ![]()
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