Towards generating web-accessible STEM documents from PDF

Volker Sorge; Akashdeep Bansal; Neha M. Jadhav; Himanshu Garg; Ayushi Verma; M. Balakrishnan

doi:10.1145/3371300.3383351

Towards generating web-accessible STEM documents from PDF

Volker Sorge
, Akashdeep Bansal
, Neha M. Jadhav
, Himanshu Garg
, Ayushi Verma
, M. Balakrishnan

Computer Science

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Abstract

PDF is still a very popular format that is widely used to exchange and archive electronic documents. And although considerable efforts have been made to ensure accessibility of PDF documents, they are still far from ideal when complex content like formulas, diagrams or tables is present. Unfortunately, many publications in scientific subjects are available in PDF format only and are therefore, if at all, only partially accessible. In this paper, we present a fully automated web-based technology to convert PDF documents into an accessible single file format. We concentrate on presenting working solutions for mathematical formulas and tables while also discussing some of the open problems in this context and how we aim to solve them in the future.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 17th International Web for All Conference, W4A 2020
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450370561
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3371300.3383351
Publication status	Published - 20 Apr 2020
Event	17th International Web for All Conference, W4A 2020 - Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China Duration: 20 Apr 2020 → 21 Apr 2020

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the 17th International Web for All Conference, W4A 2020

Conference

Conference	17th International Web for All Conference, W4A 2020
Country/Territory	Taiwan, Province of China
City	Taipei
Period	20/04/20 → 21/04/20

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 ACM.

Keywords

PDF
STEM accessibility
web

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications

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10.1145/3371300.3383351

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Sorge, V., Bansal, A., Jadhav, N. M., Garg, H., Verma, A., & Balakrishnan, M. (2020). Towards generating web-accessible STEM documents from PDF. In Proceedings of the 17th International Web for All Conference, W4A 2020 (Proceedings of the 17th International Web for All Conference, W4A 2020). Association for Computing Machinery . https://doi.org/10.1145/3371300.3383351

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Towards generating web-accessible STEM documents from PDF. / Sorge, Volker; Bansal, Akashdeep; Jadhav, Neha M. et al.
Proceedings of the 17th International Web for All Conference, W4A 2020. Association for Computing Machinery , 2020. (Proceedings of the 17th International Web for All Conference, W4A 2020).

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