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al_hag 2 hours ago

In the US, publicly funded organizations are required to code their PDF with semantic structure to support machine access by screen readers and other assistive technologies [1], [2].

Given the low adherence to accessibility standards e.g. in academic publishing [3], LLM parsing needs creating a commercial incentive for comparable structured access would be marvelous.

[1] https://www.section508.gov/create/pdfs/common-tags-and-usage...

[2] https://pdfa.org/resource/tagged-pdf-best-practice-guide-syn...

[3] https://arxiv.org/html/2410.03022v1