Hear your PDF the way a screen reader does. Then fix it.
PDFs without useful tags can give blind readers scrambled text and pictures with no description. Drop one here. Earshot shows existing tags or proposes headings, lists, tables and a reading order. You check and fix them in a few clicks, then download a tagged PDF.
A two-page town notice. Like many real exports, it has no tags and its text is stored in a scrambled order. See and hear it before and after.
Live: a screen reader reads the same page twice
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See and hear the reading order
See the original tag order if your PDF has tags, or file order if it doesn't. Headings, lists, tables and pictures are numbered on the page. Press Read aloud to hear it, or follow the captions with the sound off, before and after the fix.
Fix what the computer gets wrong
Reuse supported existing tags or start from layout suggestions. Draw around a missed table, check its cells and set headers. Fix headings, reading order and picture descriptions. Save an editing session to finish later.
Download a real tagged PDF
Earshot writes the structure into the file itself: tags on every piece of text, title, language and alt text. Our sample's output passes veraPDF's automated PDF/UA-1 checks. A person still has to confirm the meaning.
Best for born-digital documents: agendas, syllabi, flyers, reports. Scanned pages need text recognition first, which Earshot doesn't do yet. Forms, maths and complex tables need more work. Nothing you open is uploaded.