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Images and scanned pages

Text is shown as a picture

Some text is a picture of words, such as a screenshot or scanned page, instead of real text.

Who it affects

People who use screen readers, and people who zoom in or change fonts and colors to read.

Why it matters

A picture of words can't be read aloud, searched, or resized cleanly. It turns blurry when enlarged.

How to fix it

  1. Replace screenshots of text with real, typed text in the original file.
  2. If the picture must stay, give it a description that includes all of its words.

What RemeDocs does

RemeDocs can add a written description, but it can't turn a picture back into real text. That has to be done in the original file.

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