[Ohiodig] undoing PDF/A settings on a large group of files

[McCrory, Amy]

Following up, I found a solution. There's a page where Acrobat users can share automated actions they've created, and it includes what I was looking for. In case anyone else might find this resource helpful, here's the URL to the users' group. https://acrobatusers.com/actions-exchange/?trackingid=JZXYQ

Amy
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Use step-by-step Actions to automate routine, time-consuming tasks in Acrobat XI.
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Subject: [Ohiodig] undoing PDF/A settings on a large group of files

Hi all,

I have a large group of PDFs that need to be brought up to accessibility standards. I'm using the Action Wizard in Adobe Acrobat DC to run auto tagging and language declaration functions, so we won't have to edit each file one at a time.

The problem I've run into is that these files are all PDF/A's. Before making changes to any of them, you first have to click 'Enable Editing' after opening the file. So I need to set up a batch action to do this as the first step in the process. However, Enable Editing does not appear as an available process in the Action Wizard.

I can understand why this is--it sounds like a really bad idea to undo PDF/A protections on thousands of files at once! But in this case, we have to do it to run actions that will make the files more accessible.

Has anyone been able to create an automated way of running Enable Editing?

Thanks and best,

Amy


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