The Accessibility icon is located in the 'Protect & Standardize' category.Verify the Compatibility of Your Adobe Acrobat Reader Software To name an example: in Germany, the Equality for Persons with Disabilities Act (BGG) and other laws define the legal basis for this, and more detailed provisions are found in the Accessible Information Technology Ordinance (BITV). Make your documents accessible with Adobe Acrobat Proĭigital documents must be accessible to enable or facilitate access to PDF documents for audiences with physical limitations such as motor or visual impairments. from the document, which might otherwise provide clues as to the original content. You can also select Sanitize And Remove Hidden Information to redact invisible content such as metadata, hidden comments, etc. The black bar that is placed over the content you wish to remove actually deletes it irretrievably from the document, so that it will not become visible again even when it is converted back into e.g. 'Find Text & Redact' gives you the option to search for single or multiple words or phrases and then remove them. 'Redact Pages' lets you remove entire pages of a document. Let me introduce you to five of these features that I believe are very useful.Ĭlick on the small arrow next to 'Redact Text & Images' and you will find 2 options. But the software has far more tricks up its sleeve – in its Pro version. The standard version of Adobe Acrobat already gives you access to these basic features. I am talking about Adobe Acrobat, a paid product that can be acquired in a variety of licensing models. To be clear: I am not referring to the free Adobe Reader/Acrobat Reader for viewing PDF documents. Most users are familiar with creating, editing, commenting and converting PDF documents and almost certainly use these features regularly. After all, PDFs are far more than just read-only documents. The Adobe Document Cloud enables complete digitization of paper-based processes – and therefore marks an important step towards the paperless (home) office.Īdobe offers two versions of Adobe Acrobat in the Document Cloud to manage these tasks: Adobe Acrobat Standard and Adobe Acrobat Professional. PDF files are an essential component in the process of digital documentation. This means that more documents than ever before are being shared digitally.

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