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Adobe Acrobat Capture Agent Pack

Four powerful agents to help you create smaller Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) files, create accessible Adobe PDF documents and fillable forms, and apply security settings automatically. Read more in the Adobe Acrobat® Capture® Agent Pack FAQ

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The Agent Pack includes:

• Compression PDF Agent
• Adobe PDF Forms Access Agent
• Tag Adobe PDF Agent
• Security Agent

Compression PDF Agent

Deliver scanned content faster over the Internet and fit up to six times more content on a single CD with the Compression PDF Agent, which compresses Adobe PDF Image and Searchable Image documents three to six times smaller than the original format, including TIFF. This powerful technology uses JBIG2, symbol-based compression on black-and-white (bitonal) images of text and lets you choose between lossy or lossless versions. Adobe PDF files created with the Compression PDF Agent are Web-optimized to enable documents to be streamed to the viewer, a page at a time. This eliminates the need to download the entire document before viewing.

File size comparison
Document	PDF Image with Group 4 Compression	PDF Image with JBIG2 Compression	Searchable Image with Group 4 Compression	Searchable Image with JBIG2 Compression
Contract 1 page;	58k	14k	72k	28k
Annual report 68 pages	2.89M	511k	2.0M	755k
Technical report 29 pages	2.02M	431k	2.15M	582k
Patent 18 pages	815k	153k	906k	240k

Adobe PDF Forms Access Agent

Adobe PDF Forms Access is an automatic and interactive tagging tool that significantly reduces the amount of time it takes to produce an Adobe PDF form that can be accessed by users with disabilities, such as low vision or blindness. With Adobe PDF Forms Access, any Adobe PDF form can be turned into a tagged Adobe PDF form, which identifies the underlying page structure and reading order so people can use assistive technologies such as screen readers to understand and complete Adobe PDF forms. Adobe PDF Forms Access can help government agencies comply with accessibility mandates like Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act. Software included in the Agent Pack includes both an Acrobat Capture agent to support automated workflows, and as a standalone utility capable of running on any desktop, even on desktops where Acrobat Capture is not installed.

Additional tools include:

• Table Recognition tool – to appropriately tag selected content into table objects.
• Merge tool – for easy selection of multiple text objects to be grouped into a single tag.
• Split tool – to break up text lines into two text objects so that they can easily be tagged individually.

Tag Adobe PDF Agent

The Tag Adobe PDF Agent, a second accessibility-related utility, provides a process for automatically tagging high volumes of legacy Adobe PDF files with information on a document's underlying page structure and organization. Screen readers can more accurately dictate a tagged Adobe PDF file because columns and images can be properly identified. Additionally, tagged Adobe PDF columns, documents, and files offer an easier reading experience on mobile devices because content automatically reflows to fit the width of the smaller handheld screens. Adobe offers free Adobe Reader® products for accessing Adobe PDF files on the Palm OS®, Pocket PC, and Symbian OS platforms.

Security Agent

The Security Agent enables you to apply a common set of security features to all documents in one automated job, eliminating the need to first scan and process in Acrobat Capture, and then process again in Acrobat 5.0. From within an Acrobat Capture dialog box, the same passwords and privileges can be set for every document in the batch.

System requirements

• Microsoft® Windows NT® 4.0 with Internet Explorer 5.5 or later, Windows® 2000, or Windows XP
• Intel® Pentium® or faster processor (Pentium III or faster recommended)
• 64MB of available RAM (128MB recommended)
• 30MB of available hard-disk space (127MB recommended)
• Display card that supports 1,024x768 resolution
• Acrobat Capture 3.0.3 or later for all agents
• Adobe PDF Forms Access can be installed as a standalone application.

Additional documentation

Refer to http://access.adobe.com for additional information about creating accessible Adobe PDF documents. The How to Create Accessible Adobe PDF Files booklet contains information on how to use the Tag Adobe PDF Agent within Acrobat Capture 3.0. It also covers known limitations and issues with automated tagging of Adobe PDF.