Edit tags with the Reading Order Tool

You can use the Reading Order tool to create tags in untagged PDFs or to add new tags to an existing structure. However, this manual tagging doesn’t provide the same level of detail to the tagging structure as the Add Tags To Document command, such as paragraphs, bulleted and numbered lists, line breaks, and hyphens.

Before you clear the existing structure, make sure that manual tagging is your only recourse.

Add or remove content from a tagged region

The Reading Order tool always displays as few highlighted regions as possible. If content within a highlighted region doesn’t flow properly, you may need to split a region to reorder it. Highlighted regions may also contain adjacent page content that is unrelated or that requires a different tag type. Page content may become orphaned from related elements, particularly if the content doesn’t fit within a rectangular shape. Use the Reading Order tool to add or remove content from a region, or to split a region to reorder the content.

  • Select the Reading Order tool.

  • In the Reading Order dialog box, select Show Page Content Groups, and then click Page Content Order.

  • In the document pane, select a highlighted region.
  • Do one of the following:

    • To add content to the current selection, Shift-click the content you want to add. The pointer changes to include a plus sign (+).

    • To remove content from the current selection, Ctrl-click the content you want to remove. The pointer changes to include a minus sign (-).

  • Click the button for the tag type that you want for the highlighted region.