Auto-tagging a Document

In some cases, you may lack a source document to help facilitate tag creation in your PDF. Adobe implemented cloud-based auto-tagging in 2023 to help with this issue. Follow these instructions to auto-tag a document using the accessibility checker in Adobe Acrobat.

1. Run the accessibility checker
2. In the results, right-click on Tagged PDF - Failed
3. Select Fix

If your document is eligible for cloud-based auto-tagging, you will be prompted to enable the feature. Once completed, your document tags will be updated and the document will be usable by assistive technology. There are some cases where cloud-based auto-tagging will not work and their older method of locally tagging the documents will create your document tags instead.

Compliance Reminder

Auto-tagging the document does not conclude your review. You will still need to address any issues the accessibility checker finds and inspect the tag tree for accuracy.

For more information about these features, please visit Adobe's Cloud-based Auto-tagging resource Links to an external site. page.