Introduction
Making PDF Accessible with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro
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Though Acrobat Standard provides some functionality for making existing PDFs accessible, you must use
Acrobat Pro or Acrobat Pro Extended to perform certain tasks—such as editing reading order or editing
document structure tags—that may be necessary to make some PDF documents and forms accessible
(See
“Table 1: Features for Creating Accessible PDF Files by Product” on page 4)
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Table 1: Features for Creating Accessible PDF Files by Product
Reader 9
Acrobat 9
Standard
Acrobat 9
Pro
Acrobat 9
Pro
Extended
Create PDF documents from any
application that prints
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Convert Microsoft Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, Publisher, and
Access files to PDF with one-
button ease*
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Capture web pages as rich,
dynamic PDF files for review
and archiving
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Scan paper documents to PDF
and automatically recognize text
with optical character recogni-
tion (OCR)
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Save PDF files as Microsoft
Word documents, retaining the
layout, fonts, formatting, and
tables, to facilitate reuse of con-
tent
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Easily create fillable PDF forms
from paper or existing files using
the Form Wizard
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Enable users of Adobe Reader®
(version 8 or later) to fill in and
save PDF forms locally
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Create dynamic XML forms with
Adobe LiveCycle® Designer ES
(included)*
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Create and validate accessible
PDF documents
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* Windows Only