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Auto-Tag PDFs with Amazon Textract: Fast, Scalable Cloud OCR for PDF Accessibility

PDFix now integrates with Amazon Textract, AWS’s cloud-based OCR and document analysis service designed to extract text, structure, tables, and form data from PDFs and images. This cloud-powered workflow delivers fast, scalable auto-tagging inside PDFix Desktop and PDFix SDK.

With PDFix + Textract, you can auto-tag PDFs, extract structural information, and generate layout templates that accelerate accessibility remediation.

Meet PDFix Desktop + Textract

  • AWS-Backed OCR: Uses Amazon Textract’s text extraction and layout analysis
  • Cloud Processing: Offloads the heavy lifting to AWS
  • Fast & Scalable: Ideal for high-volume or distributed enterprise environments
  • PDFix Integration: Convert Textract output into accessible PDF tags and layout templates
  • Batch Processing Ready: Use Desktop or SDK to process entire folders.
  • Template Generation: Automatically build reusable PDFix layout templates

How It Works: Choose Your Path

For PDFix Desktop Users

Perfect for accessibility specialists and document teams who prefer a visual workflow while leveraging AWS cloud OCR.

  • Create an AWS Account
    • Visit amazon.com and click “Create an AWS Account”
    • Free registration
    • AWS charges for processed pages
  • Generate Your AWS Access Keys
    • Open the AWS IAM Management Console
    • Go to Users → Security Credentials
    • Click Create access key
    • Securely store your Access Key ID and Secret Access Key
  • Configure Action in PDFix
    • Pull the Docker into PDFix Desktop via Action Manager → AutoTag (Textract)
    • Paste your AWS Access Key ID and Secret Access Key
  • Upload a PDF → Run Action
    • PDFix sends your document to Textract, processes it in AWS and applies the detected structure to the PDF tag.

💡 Tip: If you’re new to AWS, you can start with the Free Tier – it includes limited monthly usage of Textract for testing and evaluation.

For PDFix SDK Users

Ideal for developers and enterprises building automated PDF remediation pipelines.

  • Automated Pipeline Integration
    • Integrate the Textract action with PDFix SDK to process large batches of PDFs, convert Textract output into tags, generate layout templates and easily embed into enterprise workflows
    • When using Textract with the PDFix SDK, remember that you also need an AWS account and valid AWS Access Keys
  • Resources for SDK Integration
  • SDK Benefits
    • Programmatic automation
    • Batch workflows
    • Scalable cloud OCR
    • Consistent, repeatable PDF remediation

☁️ Cloud Processing -> PDFix + Textract

  • Zero local compute requirements
  • Processes massive volumes with scalability
  • Pay-as-you-go billing
  • Uses AWS’s OCR and layout extraction models
  • No hardware investment needed

Textract is ideal for distributed organizations, cloud-native workflows, and teams needing scalable OCR for accessibility remediation.

Template System: Reuse Your Layout Rules

Once a document is analyzed using Amazon Textract, you can generate a layout template JSON. Use it to:

  • Apply the same structure to hundreds or thousands of similar PDFs
  • Standardize tagging across your organization
  • Accelerate PDF/UA & WCAG remediation at scale

Resources

Actions

💰☁️ [Paid][Cloud] Auto-Tag (Textract)Automatically tags PDF using Amazon Textract [Cloud]
💰☁️ [Paid][Cloud]Create Layout Template JSON (Textract)Automatically creates layout template json using Amazon Textract, saving it as JSON file [Cloud]

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