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Follow the steps below under The Solution.

YES! Congratulations, you have an accessible pdf.

Can you select one word and copy/paste it into another document? How do you know if you have an image-only PDF? Open it up in the PDF reader of your choice and try to select a single word. Image-only pdfs are comparatively larger sized pdf files. There is no text for the students to select and comment. The Hypothesis integration can not use image-only PDF documents.

Hypothesis (and the Canvas integration).

There is no text for them to work with, which means people who rely on screen readers can not read that pdf file. However, there are some scenarios where image-only PDFs just do not work. Usually that isn’t a problem in our classroom activities. In fact, the default setting for our Xerox devices on campus is to generate image-only PDFs for scanning (it is faster).

Many PDFs are still generated as image-only, especially free PDF creation solutions. Many journals, databases, and other online sites used image only PDFs to digitize their content. Here is an example of an image-only PDF that I used in the demonstration video below.įor years, this was the way most PDF files were generated. However, that means you can’t work with the text. It took an image of the text and displayed it.

That’s why we invented the Portable Document Format (PDF), to present and exchange documents reliably - independent of software, hardware, or operating system.The goal was to enable anyone to capture documents from any application, send electronic versions of these documents anywhere, and view and print them on any machine.Įarly PDFs were image-only. That was Adobe’s mission when they created the pdf file format, according to their website: Everybody can open and view the content and it gives us a consistent view regardless of device or software. Most of us use PDF files all the time without giving them too much thought.