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Old 12-03-2014, 02:05 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by newbiecalibre View Post
Hello,

I haven't seen this in the archives of this forum, so I hope someone can help.

I have made a Word document accessible for people with disabilities. This includes using headings, amongst other things. I then make a PDF from that document and add tags to it.

The tags help tell a screen reader where things like paragraphs and headings are in that document. That PDF forms a great roadmap for someone who is blind, who is using a screen reader to 'read' the document.

Calibre looks like an amazing tool, and easy to use!

I can see that I can convert a PDF to an ePub easily, but here is my question...Do the PDF tags get stripped out? Or are they kept in?

Thanks in advance.

LS
@newbiecalibre - I think you'll do a whole sight better starting with your Word file, save it as DOCX and convert it to EPUB with calibre. One caveat you must use Words Styling facilities, no manual spacing with successive Tabs and empty Paragraphs. See ==>> Ebook Conversion

Converting PDF to anything is problematic see == >> Read this before Posting PDF Questions

BR
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