Twelve structural passes on your InDesign‑exported PDFs.

What this tool does

• Merges multi-line paragraph MCIDs. Every word-wrapped paragraph in an InDesign-exported PDF ships as a separate marked-content block per visual line. Validators like PAC 2024 don’t flag it — it’s technically valid PDF/UA — but certain screen readers, including Acrobat’s built-in Read Out Loud, treat each line as its own unit, chopping the reading rhythm across a paragraph that should flow as one. Fixing by hand means re-parenting every stray leaf in Acrobat’s Tags tree by mouse — an hour of fiddly work per medium document. We finish it in under a second.
• Tag-tree cleanup. InDesign’s export routinely ships structural litter — empty tags, whitespace-only paragraphs, duplicate and dead references, untagged orphan content — each one a line a remediator would delete by hand in Acrobat’s Tags tree. The pipeline clears all of it in one pass: prunes the empty elements, trims trailing whitespace, dedupes references, drops dead annotation pointers, and artifact-wraps orphans so they render but don’t clutter the accessibility tree.
• Consolidates redundant <Span> tags. InDesign wraps every character-style run in a <Span>, even when there’s no accessibility payload on it. Acrobat’s Tags tree ends up two or three times deeper than it should be, and the extra depth confuses some assistive tech. We flatten the unnecessary ones and preserve the Spans that carry real metadata (/Alt, /ActualText, /E) so the tree reads as the author intended.
• Sets the document language and PDF/UA-1 metadata (/Lang, DisplayDocTitle, MarkInfo/Marked, XMP pdfuaid:part).
• Wraps untagged decorative artwork — including paths inside referenced Form XObjects — as artifacts so screen readers skip them.
• Adds Row, Column, or Both scope to table header cells — you pick, per table, based on previews.
• Unwraps <Table> tags that InDesign nested inside <P>.
• Sets /Placement /Block on inline-by-default tags so they render as blocks in the tag tree.
• Generates PDF bookmarks from your heading structure, with full ToUnicode support for non-ASCII languages.
• Reconciles /Form struct-tree order with widget position so tab order matches the visual reading order.
• Sets /Tabs=/S on every page with annotations — links, form fields, sticky notes — so the Tab key walks them in reading-order per PDF/UA. InDesign handles this for form pages but routinely omits it on link-only pages, which PAC flags.
• Preserves every form field, widget, and JavaScript action in your document.