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PDF/UA-1 rule 7.1-3: Content is neither marked as Artifact nor tagged as real content

Not fixed automatically artifact

What veraPDF reports

Content is neither marked as Artifact nor tagged as real content

veraPDF rule 7.1-3 = ISO 14289-1:2014 clause 7.1, test 3, checked on PDF object SESimpleContentItem.

In Adobe Acrobat’s Accessibility Checker the closest item is “Tagged content”.

What the requirement says

Content shall be marked as Artifact or tagged as real content

Can it be fixed automatically?

How to fix it by hand

Every piece of page content must be either tagged or marked as an artifact (headers, footers, decorations). This is fixed by tagging the document — export as tagged PDF, or use a PDF editor's reading-order / content tools.

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Other rules in clause 7.1

• 7.1-1 Content marked as Artifact should not be present inside tagged content
• 7.1-2 Tagged content should not be present inside content marked as Artifact
• 7.1-4 Files shall have a Suspects value of false(ISO 32000-1:2008, Table 321)
• 7.1-5 All non-standard structure types shall be mapped to the nearest functionally equivalent standard type, as defined in ISO
• 7.1-6 A circular mapping shall not exist
• 7.1-7 Standard tags defined in ISO 32000-1:2008, 14.8.4, shall not be remapped
• 7.1-8 The Catalog dictionary of a conforming file shall contain the Metadata key whose value is a metadata stream as defined i
• 7.1-9 The Metadata stream in the document's catalog dictionary shall contain a dc:title entry, where dc is the recommended pre
• 7.1-10 The document catalog dictionary shall include a ViewerPreferences dictionary containing a DisplayDocTitle key, whose val
• 7.1-11 The logical structure of the conforming file shall be described by a structure hierarchy rooted in the StructTreeRoot en
• 7.1-12 A structure element dictionary shall contain the P (parent) entry according to ISO 32000-1:2008, 14.7.2, Table 355

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