Scanned PDFs: when OCR helps and when it lies
OCR reads clean modern scans well and degrades silently on faxes, stamps and old archives — returning confident text that is wrong. How to triage a scanned backlog honestly.
Rakesh Patel4 min read
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Accessible documents
A board packet, a permit form and a scanned ordinance from 1994 fail accessibility checks for completely different reasons, and they get fixed in completely different ways. This category takes one document type at a time: what makes it inaccessible, what a correct remediation includes, what it costs relative to other types, and when the honest answer is to rebuild or retire the document instead. If your backlog has a hard category, start here.
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Fillable forms are the hardest documents you publish
A form is an interface, not a page: every field needs a real label, a sane tab order and instructions in the right place. Why forms route to our highest remediation level — and how to test one.
Rakesh Patel3 min read
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