Accesibility not avaliable in when converting from word to pdf

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I’m using aspose for .NET but I’m unable to use generate a pdf from word where accessibility text is avaliable on pictures. The file i want to convert: test.docx (39.0 KB)

I have tried to use your online converter: Convert Files Online - Word, PDF, HTML, JPG And Many More, where it does not work either.

My code:

Aspose.Words.Saving.PdfSaveOptions options = new Aspose.Words.Saving.PdfSaveOptions();
options.SaveFormat = Aspose.Words.SaveFormat.Pdf;
options.ExportDocumentStructure = true;
options.PreserveFormFields = true;

Aspose.Words.Document document = new Aspose.Words.Document(stream);
var fileStream = fileStreamService.CreateFileStream();
document.Save(fileStream, options);
fileStream.Flush();
return fileStream;
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I still have trouble creating a pdf document from word. Im trying to convert this filetest.docx (39.0 KB)

My code looks like this:

Aspose.Words.Saving.PdfSaveOptions options = new Aspose.Words.Saving.PdfSaveOptions();
options.SaveFormat = Aspose.Words.SaveFormat.Pdf;
options.ExportDocumentStructure = true;
options.PreserveFormFields = true;
options.Compliance = Aspose.Words.Saving.PdfCompliance.PdfA2a;

Aspose.Words.Document document = new Aspose.Words.Document(stream);
var fileStream = fileStreamService.CreateFileStream();
document.Save(fileStream, options);
fileStream.Flush();
return fileStream;

Can you generate a pdf document where it is possible to read the alt-text from the picture?

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@DonSpaghetti As I can see alternative text of the image is properly exported to PDF. Please see the attached screenshot from Adobe Reader:

And from PAC3:

Could you please further elaborate your requirements?

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I have trouble to read the alternate text with a tool like NVDA. Do i need to set another option to enable this?

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@DonSpaghetti Looks like the problem is with NVDA software. Could you please make sure it can read alt text from PDF produced for example by MS Word?

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@alexey.noskov NVDA works fine when I’m saving the same .docx as a pdf inside Word.

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@DonSpaghetti Could you please share, where I can get the software you are using for testing? We will check the issue and provide you more information.

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@alexey.noskov I’m using this tool: NV Access | Download NVDA.

From what i can gather it is a standard tool used by testers.

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@DonSpaghetti Thank you for additional information. But unfortunately, I cannot reproduce the problem on my side. When I open the PDF document generated by Aspose.Words in Adobe Acrobat reader and navigate in it NVDA properly reads alt text of the image and pronanciate it.

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How do you convert the .docx file to pdf?

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@DonSpaghetti Here if the code used for conversion:

Document doc = new Document(@"C:\Temp\in.docx");
PdfSaveOptions opt = new PdfSaveOptions();
opt.ExportDocumentStructure = true;
opt.Compliance = PdfCompliance.PdfA2a;
doc.Save(@"C:\Temp\out.pdf", opt);

And here is the output PDF produced on my side: out.pdf (53.3 KB)

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Thanks, that fixed my issue

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