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Equidox by Onix. Reach Everyone.

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Okay, I think we're ready to get started it's 
just about two o'clock... so welcome everyone to  

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another episode of Equidox Webinar Wednesdays. For 
those of you who might not know me my name is Dan  

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Tuleta. I am a sales engineer here with Equidox 
and today on this webinar we're going to do an  

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overview of the software. So we're going to talk a 
few of the basics about the interface but also get  

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into what general, you know, sort of day-to-day 
PDF remediation looks like using Equidox.  

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As always if you have any questions related to 
Equidox, what we do here regarding our software  

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or services... If you have any questions, 
please feel free to reach out to us at  

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EquidoxSales@onixnet.com or through our website 
at Equidox.co. Alright so let's get started!

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Okay so welcome everyone to Equidox. 
This is our PDF remediation tool.  

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For those of you who've never seen Equidox before, 
if you're not current users, what Equidox is,  

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is a PDF remediation software. The first thing I'd 
like to mention that it is web-based. So there's a  

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lot of advantages to it being web-based. It 
allows you to collaborate and work together  

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with team members. So if you are not the resident 
PDF accessibility expert in your organization...  

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if you're stuck on pages... if you 
have a huge volume of documents...  

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Being web-based, everything is centralized in 
one location in this account and you can share  

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documents and work together, even simultaneously, 
with other teammates on a specific document.  

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So it allows you to sort of collaborate and share 
work and distribute sort of projects around to  

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different users throughout the account. We do 
work on a concurrent user model, which is really  

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helpful, meaning that you don't have to install 
any software on anyone's computer because this  

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is just working right in a browser. So you don't 
have to update or maintain or install software.  

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It allows for really easy deployment across an 
organization to get a lot of different people  

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involved in PDF remediation. Not everyone is going 
to be remediating documents for 40 hours a week,  

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so this allows people to log in and log out 
whenever they might have a handful of documents  

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or pages that they need to work on. Okay, so what 
we're looking at right now is the very is the home  

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page of Equidox. So this is something similar to 
what you'll see when you log in. This is my own  

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personal account that I have here, so your view of 
this would probably be blank when you get started.  

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So this is just a list of documents that 
can be remediated at any given time.  

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They're saved in here for you to 
begin working whenever you'd like.  

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The way that we get documents into Equidox is we 
have to import them. So on the left-hand side we  

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have some different tabs that you can use and 
the second tab down is for importing. So if I  

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navigate to this tab right here, what I can do 
is I can open up the folders on my hard drive,  

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and I'm able to just grab some documents, whatever 
I would like, to bring into into Equidox. I'm able  

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to select PDFs off of my hard drive, and I can 
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So you can do a multi-select you can bring in 
really as many documents as you like within  

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reason. So if you have 10 PDFs that you want 
to work on, you can select all 10 and drag  

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them into this gray box. Once you've done that 
you'll get a green checkmark indicating that  

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the document has been uploaded. So now it's in 
a format that's ready for Equidox to import,  

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and then this blue import button will then 
appear. So when I press this import button,  

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Equidox is going to start looking at that source 
file. If there is no existing tag structure with  

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this PDF, what Equidox will do is it will start 
automatically detecting data and elements within  

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the document to give you a head start on 
your remediation process, so that you're not  

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having to make as many manual adjustments 
and manual manipulations to the document.  

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So if there is existing tag structure, which may 
be the case in some instances. That tag structure  

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is not necessarily correct or accurate nor does 
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Equidox will do is it will import that existing 
tag structure automatically, and it gives you  

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the choice to either use Equidox to start from 
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or if you'd like to just build off on top of that 
existing tag structure, you also have that option.  

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Another thing I'll mention is the ability to 
import from URLs. So this is really handy if  

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you've done a website audit or if you've just 
gathered a bunch of PDF documents that might  

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already be posted to your website. If those are 
in a spreadsheet or a CSV file, you don't have to  

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download you know hundreds of PDF documents 
to your hard drive you can just copy and  

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paste those URLs into this window here, and 
then the import process is exactly the same.  

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Equidox will automatically go and retrieve 
those from the web wherever they're located.  

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Okay so I imported basically the same document 
twice, I did it just before the webinar started,  

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but I do have two notifications over here... just 
letting you know the documents are in the system  

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and ready to be worked on. So if you're doing 
a bulk import, you don't have to be stuck on  

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this import page... You can be in other areas of 
the application working on documents. One other  

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thing I'll mention about the interface before 
jumping into remediation is our Help tab. So this  

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is really helpful for new users. So we know that 
PDF remediation is not something that is natural  

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and intuitive for every single person. This is 
a new concept for most people. It's becoming  

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more and more of a requirement these days. So we 
know that training and support are very helpful  

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for these people, getting over the learning 
curve. So we do offer an end-user guide which  

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opens up in a separate tab. And it's a Drupal 
website, and there's a ton of resources in here,  

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including training videos, as well. 
That will basically walk you through  

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the application and help you get started... 
help you get over that learning curve...  

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answer the majority of those, you know, how 
to type of questions for you. We also have the  

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ability to submit a support ticket from within 
the application. So we have a dedicated support  

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staff that is standing by ready to assist you 
if you do run into any trouble using equidox.  

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So training and support are very important to 
us, and we are here to help. Okay, so here's the  

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document that I just imported a couple of minutes 
ago. Let's select this document and jump in.  

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So when I select the document, I'm 
presented with the document detail page.  

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From the document detail page I have the option 
to share it. So if I wanted to share this document  

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with other users in the account, I would certainly 
be able to do that, So if you're asking for help,  

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or if you need someone to collaborate with on 
this document, it's really simple to share this  

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file with others. Maybe you're not the subject 
matter expert... maybe it's a little bit too  

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technical for your experience... but you're 
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in the document detail page. We have a few 
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the Properties Tab is not overly exciting, but 
it just gives you some basic feedback about the  

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document. So the title of the document, for 
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for the document so you can you know.... 
setting the language attribute will call  

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up the correct language pack from the screen 
reader. So that if you have a Spanish document  

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you don't have an English screen reader 
mispronouncing every Spanish word, for example.  

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Then some simple metadata about the document 
can appear if there is metadata available from  

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that source file. One important tab here on the 
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I mention is the Images Tab. So the Images Tab... 
what this does is it gives you a consolidated list  

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of all of the images in the 
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So this is very helpful, because tagging images 
with descriptions is one of those unavoidable  

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parts of PDF remediation. We need to make sure 
that we're giving alternate text to these images  

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so that they have a relevant description to 
describe how they fit within the document.  

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So the Images Tab consolidates all of the images, 
even if it's scattered across hundreds of pages,  

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into one list for you. So that if you're familiar 
with the content, you're able to go through and  

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start providing descriptions for these images 
in one location. It's also a great way of making  

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sure that you haven't skipped over any images or 
forgotten to tag anything, because you get this  

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big red warning reminding you that you don't 
have any alt text applied to that image. Now  

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in this case since I have this consolidated list 
of images, I can very easily see that these are  

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the same logo repeating time and time again. So 
across all five pages, I have the same exact logo.  

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This is an example of when images can become 
redundant and not very helpful to end-users.  

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So we don't need to provide the exact same alt 
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That I think end users will have, like have, the 
understanding that this is a document created by  

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Equidox. So we don't need to keep reminding them 
that their logo is present in the corner of every  

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page. So in this instance what I would do or what 
I would recommend- it's- it's up to you if you'd  

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like to tag all of these images you could, but 
what i would recommend is you can hit Hide All  

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Zones, and then unselect the visible checkbox. 
And what this does is it artifacts the images,  

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so it removes your responsibility of providing alt 
text for them. So I'm able to handle all that very  

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quickly just by hitting a couple of checkboxes 
and all of those images are automatically going  

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to be artifacted for me. And now I don't have 
to spend time typing out alt descriptions.  

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Now perhaps best practices will call for me to 
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or the first instance of that logo, so what I 
can do is I can type in my alt text here for my  

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first occurrence of that image on page 
one, so I'll just type in "Equidox  

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logo." And I will make sure to save my 
image properties so that that will carry  

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over when I'm looking at the document in the Page 
Editor. Okay so now I've handled my images. All  

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my images are done for the document. I'm 
able to take care of those very quickly,  

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and now what I'll do is I'll jump into the 
first page of this document and just take a  

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look at what we have. All right, so here we are on 
page one of five, And within this page I can tell  

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now that there's a little bit of a different 
look to it. Because I have these yellow boxes  

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that are scattered across the page, based on where 
Equidox was automatically detecting the text and  

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the elements that comprised this PDF. So all I've 
done so far to this document was import it. There  

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was no existing tag structure. I haven't done 
anything to trick this document up, this is simply  

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text on a page, and Equidox is able to recognize 
the breakdown of the paragraph structure, and it's  

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given me all of these text zones to work from 
so that I'm not having to draw a bunch of zones  

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manually and identify where my paragraphs are. 
I can let Equidox do that heavy lifting for me.  

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One really handy tool within Equidox is this 
button up here, which looks like a computer  

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monitor. So this is for previewing the page 
that you're currently working on. Whenever  

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I select this preview button this is going to 
open up a separate tab for me in my browser.  

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And in this in preview page what I'm seeing is 
an HTML preview of all of the data that currently  

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makes up that PDF page. So when I have 
this HTML preview page open, I'm able to do sort  

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of a spot check or a validation of my structure 
on that page that I'm currently working on. So  

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whenever I make changes to the page that I was 
working on, I'm going to see those changes be  

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reflected here in my HTML preview page. So, for 
example, if I go back to the PDF Page Editor,  

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this is certainly a Heading level one, because 
this document didn't have any existing tag  

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structure... it's up to me as the remediator to 
make sure that I'm setting this as a heading.  

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So I'm gonna change this zone type--which is 
just by default text-- I'm gonna change it to  

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a heading and I'm gonna make it a Heading level 
one. And all I'm gonna do is select the zone  

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and press "1" on my keyboard. And that's gonna 
change it to a Heading level one. And by doing  

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that... when I refresh my preview, here I have 
much larger fonts, indicating that I have,  

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in fact, set that zone as a heading. So we 
can see that change come to life very quickly.  

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And so one other thing I'll show you here on this 
document, or on this page, rather, is sometimes  

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I see and I talk to a lot of clients that really 
struggle with redundant information in headers and  

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footers. We have a way of automatically handling 
something like this. So if you have... if you  

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find that every page has header data that is, you 
know, redundant... and just gets too much to tag,  

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too much information, that's repeating itself 
page after page, one thing we can do... is we  

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can draw a very small zone... and we can actually 
tag this as an Ignore zone. So I'm gonna hit "I"  

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on my keyboard "I" for "Ignore," and what 
this will do is, it will copy an Ignore zone  

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to all pages in the document. And I'm able to 
handle all of the header and footer information  

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automatically just by creating one Ignore zone. 
So if I don't want to include my headers, because  

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this is just not really important information 
to the document... it's just letting you know  

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that I created this document... So this is 
pretty common. I find in PDFs where you have  

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pretty useless information that's plugging up 
the headers on every single page. You're able  

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to artifact all of the all of that header data 
just by simply creating one Ignore zone. And then  

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we'll see that be repeated on every single page 
from here on out. So looking at my preview now,  

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I'm gonna see that that information that 
was contained in that text zone has been  

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now artifacted, and gotten out of the way. I find 
that that's really helpful for a lot of our users  

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that struggle with tagging a lot of redundant 
information in headers and footers. You can wipe  

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it out for 100 pages in one swoop. Okay, and I 
did mention the keyboard shortcuts. And in fact,  

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I used a couple on this page. Keep in mind 
that we have a menu of keyboard shortcuts in  

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the upper right-hand corner. It's the little 
"i" icon--the lowercase "i"-- and this will  

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give you a menu of keyboard shortcuts that you 
are free to start using at your leisure. So as  

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you get more comfortable with the application, 
you can use these and incorporate them into your  

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workflow to speed things up... to be a little bit 
more efficient with your... with your movements.  

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Otherwise, you're spending a lot of time moving 
in and using drop down menus, for example, which  

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can be a little bit um taxing on your mouse 
hand, for example. So the keyboard shortcuts  

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are a way of speeding things up and being more 
efficient. Okay so let's move on to page two.

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Now we move on to page two. We can see at the 
top here, here's our Ignore zone again. So it's  

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been copied even though I haven't yet visited this 
page... It's been copied to this page. I do have  

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a few changes to make to this page, however. So 
one thing I notice immediately when arriving at  

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this page is I have different fonts. So I have 
different line spacing, different font sizes,  

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different font styles. Not every page is going to 
be completely uniform. And when I imported this  

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document, maybe Equidox was thrown off a little 
bit by the double-spacing, or maybe someone was  

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using carriage returns where they shouldn't 
have been. So Equidox has given me a little  

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bit too-- a few too many text zones. As you can 
see, if I look at my Preview, as it sits right now  

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you can tell very quickly that I have all of these 
extra text zones... all these extra paragraphs,  

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essentially. Which is not going to be a very good 
reading experience for end-users. So what I'll do  

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is I will go to my Page Tab, which we haven't yet 
visited, over in the left-hand side in the upper  

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left-hand corner is the Page Tab. And what we have 
here is this tool that we call the Zone Detector.  

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If I zoom out a little bit, we'll see here 
that if I move my Zone Detector back and forth,  

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what it's doing is it's automatically changing 
the detection level of Equidox. So it's focusing  

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in the more I drag it to the left, and if I drag 
it to the right, it's focusing out. Sort of taking  

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that 10,000-foot view of the page. So I need to 
find a balance in here, something that gives me  

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the best possible starting point. And if I find 
a sensitivity setting that seems to work best,  

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where I have the proper paragraph structure, 
this is sort of my indication to then, you know,  

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just rely on this setting, and then make any 
further adjustments that I need. So after just  

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using the Zone Detector slider just for a 
few seconds there, if I refresh my preview,  

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now we have a much better breakdown of all of our 
paragraphs, which is ...which is super helpful. We  

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don't have to then go through and manually delete a bunch of zones. We don't have to resize and draw  

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a bunch of new zones. Equidox is automatically 
able to detect all of those paragraphs for us  

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just by moving that detection slider. We can 
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so if you find after a couple of pages 
that your same detection level is...  

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seems to be pretty repetitive on every page, if 
you want to apply that to all pages, Equidox will  

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then go forward in the document and on all 
subsequent pages it will have that detection  

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setting for you. So that you're not having to move 
this around on every page. So there's quite a few  

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features within Equidox that you can use to apply 
to all pages. That way you won't have to manually  

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adjust them time and time again. Same thing can be 
said for Reading Order, which in fact we'll get to  

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in just a second now. The only other element on 
this page was this bolded section here... so I  

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was kind of intending to turn this into a Heading 
level two. So I made a larger font... I made it  

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bold just going through an example of, you know, 
varying text and line spacing. So to set this as a  

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heading level two, I'm just going to select the 
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And that has quickly changed it to a heading level 
two just by simply hitting the "2" key. So very  

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fast, very easy to set your heading structure. 
Another great feature of Equidox is the ability to  

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set up a heading template. So if your document is 
consistently formatted, and consistently designed,  

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you can set a heading level two and then hit 
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what Equidox will do is it will look forward 
in the document, in all zones that have the  

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same properties, so the same font styles 
it will automatically set that as a heading  

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level two for you so that you're not having to 
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That is somewhat reliant on the quality of the 
source file, of course, because not all documents  

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have exactly consistent structure and layout 
throughout the entire document. But if that  

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is the case, you can certainly use the heading 
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Okay so let's move on to page three. So here we 
are on page three, and again a different sort of  

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layout here. Where we have ...we have a small 
issue here with our reading order because of  

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this three-column layout. So this is just another 
example of something that you might come across  

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in day to day PDF remediation You're stuck with 
a different sort of layout than you were... than  

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you saw on the previous page. So we have three 
columns here. And really this is about setting the  

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reading order. So the reading order is indicated 
on Equidox in the upper right-hand corner of the  

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zone. There's a little green flag that has a 
number in it. And so every one of these numbers  

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is... it corresponds to the reading order of the 
page. So in this case... this being reading zone  

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4... this over here is reading zone 5, this is 6, 
this is 7 this is 8... I think you can understand  

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the problem... where we're reading across three 
separate columns here... rather than actually  

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setting it up uh properly with reading down 
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column and then over to the right-hand column. 
So to very quickly handle this type of issue,  

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what I can do is I can just go to my Page Tab. I 
can set the reading order. So I'm here I'm on the  

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Page Tab where I was using the zone detector 
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the default is just left-to-right, top-to-bottom, 
as most pages will be, but here we have definitely  

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a unique layout where we have this three-column 
setup. So I can choose three columns for my  

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reading order and press the reorder button. 
And after doing that, now I have zone 4  

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and I have zone 5 down here, up here is 6, 7, 8, 
9, and 10. So I'm now reading in the left-hand  

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column then down the middle column and then over 
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read. So I've fixed the reading order, really by just pressing a couple of buttons. Very simple.  

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I'm also going to set this as a heading level two 
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when we take a look at the preview we're going to 
see a nice clean structure here where we have the  

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proper reading order, we have our heading level 
2 set... There is one other little trick here on  

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this document, or on this page rather, that I 
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sometimes paragraphs are split across columns, 
or across pages, for example, And if you notice,  

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down here, this sentence doesn't end with any sort 
of punctuation. And it's picked up up here in this  

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next paragraph. This is an instance where we need 
to merge the two paragraphs together so that it's  

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not being read as two separate complete sentences. 
So what I'll do is, if I just select this zone  

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which is currently zone 6, I'll just hit the Merge 
checkbox and I believe there's another incident  

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of it as well on zone 9... so I'll also hit the 
Merge checkbox there as well. And when I refresh  

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the preview, we're going to see that we've gotten 
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And now we're back to the exact structure that we 
need, where we have five distinct paragraphs and  

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a heading. That's really all we need on this 
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And here we are getting into some 
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So in if you've ever done PDF remediation 
manually, in manual tagging tools you'll probably  

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know that things like tables and lists are 
very tedious and technical, and time-consuming.  

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So with Equidox we've really solved that 
with our proprietary table and list editors  

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which use computer vision and machine learning to 
understand table structure. So something like this  

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a table where this might take you a half an hour 
to fiddle around with in a manual tagging tool...  

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In Equidox we can handle this table literally in 
seconds. So just for consistency's sake, I'm going  

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to set my headings on this page. So I'm going to 
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But then down here I have this table and if 
you notice every cell currently has a text  

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zone wrapped around it because this document 
had no existing tag structure. There is no  

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table structure to for Equidox to look at so 
it's just assuming that this is a very weird  

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layout of paragraphs. So if we look at 
the preview for how this currently looks,  

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you can see what a disaster this would be for 
someone using assistive technology to try to  

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understand that table. It would be virtually 
impossible. So this table as it sits right now  

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is not helpful in any way. But with Equidox all we 
have to do is draw a zone around the entire table.  

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So I'm just going to click and drag to create one 
zone over the entire table itself. I'm going to  

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hit "T" on my keyboard to change the zone type 
to "table." And then I have a blue button over  

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here for Table Editor. So when I select the Table 
Editor I'm now just interacting with the table  

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itself. So the rest of the page has vanished 
from view, and I'm just isolating the table.  

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And if I take a look at this table, there are some 
grid lines now where Equidox has drawn these green  

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gridlines that I'm able to move around and adjust if needed. But we also have a Table Detection tool  

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that is really helpful for instances like this. So 
if you're not satisfied with the sort of instant  

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detection that Equidox gave you you can use these 
detection sliders to move them around and change  

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the algorithm at which Equidox is picking up 
the data in this table. And if you find just  

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the best starting point this will help you a lot 
so you're not having to create and move a bunch of  

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gridlines around. You're just letting Equidox's 
computer vision and machine learning handle that  

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for you. So just by moving these Detection sliders 
around a bit, I now have pretty much perfect table  

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structure. All of my green grid lines are matched 
up with the cell structure of that source table  

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pretty much instantaneously. Just a couple of 
clicks and I'm able to get a very nice clean table  

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structure. So if I take a look at the preview, 
we remember how bad it looked before with just  

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that long string of data which was useless, 
now we actually have real table structure.  

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There's a few things that we need to adjust still 
because this is a slightly more complex table.  

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For example 2019 and 2020, these two years, 
they need to span across two separate cells.  

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So what I can do is I can select this cell here in 
2019, and hold down "shift" and then select in the  

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other cell and I'll press "S" on my keyboard to span across. And I'll repeat that same process for  

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202. So I'll just hold down "shift" and select 
in both cells and hit "S" to span across. The  

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other little curveball here is this second row 
is actually a second layer of column headers.  

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So in this table, we have both 2019 and 2020 are 
our main parent headers, and then we have these  

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other headers here for budget and expense. So by 
default Equidox just assumes that your headers  

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are at a one-to-one ratio meaning one row header and one column header. So that's just the default  

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setting that it gives you here in these two little 
windows for one and one. But if I want to change  

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my column header to include two rows of column 
headers, I can do that by hitting the "2" or just  

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the arrow button to make it change from one to two. And by doing that when I refresh my preview,  

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now I can now see that the span has occurred 
where I've gotten rid of those extra cells  

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and I now have bold font where budget and 
expense were previously. Just that standard  

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font indicating that they were going to be read as 
table data. So that's a very simple way to handle  

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tables in Equidox. And one other thing I want 
to draw your attention to is the fact that the  

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table summary has automatically populated. 
So Equidox is automatically able to write  

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a table summary for you so that you're not 
having to write these summaries yourself.  

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You're not having to stop in the middle of your 
remediation and type out a bunch of things.  

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You're also... if you have a lot of users 
in your organization you're going to get  

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nice clean and consistent table summaries from 
everyone regardless of who is remediating them.  

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Okay, so I'm going to save this table 
and close out of the Table Editor.  

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And if you notice when we get back to the main 
page all of those individual text zones that  

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were covering up every single one of the cells in 
the table, they have now disappeared. They've been  

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overwritten by the Table zone. So now I'm just 
left with one clean table zone... and everything  

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else on this page looks great, except for down 
here, where I do have this list which is currently  

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not tagged as a list at all. There is one large 
text zone over the top of the entire list.  

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So what I can do to change this from a text zone 
to a list, is I can just hit "L" on my keyboard  

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for List. And we have a List Detection slider down 
here as well. So another tool that makes it very  

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simple to tag a complicated element. If I just 
move that from left to right, what what that does  

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is Equidox will then pick up where those list 
labels are... the bullet points in this case. And  

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it's automatically going to identify those list items for me. So that list is that single text  

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zone has quickly been split into six individual 
list items. And when I refresh the preview,  

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we are going to see a nice clean list exactly as 
it should appear. Bow we do have one other issue  

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here, where we have a reading order problem. 
And the reason for that is because I created  

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that zone manually, so it went to the very 
end of the reading order. But very quickly I  

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can fix that by just going to my Page Tab and 
pressing "Reorder," which will reorder things  

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in that top-to-bottom layout. And so now I'm very 
much satisfied with the way that this page looks.  

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We do have one other example of a more 
complicated list. Something that you might  

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come across on a regular basis, which are nested 
lists, where you actually have sub-lists inside  

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of list items. So you can see here, this is an 
example of a two-layered list. We can handle  

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larger lists as well, it really doesn't matter 
to Equidox, because of the amazing computer  

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vision that we've developed. But if we want to 
quickly tag this, all we have to do again is hit  

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"L" on the keyboard. And I'm just going to move 
my list detector over a little bit further,  

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so that it's going to go deeper into the list. So 
it's going to give me two layers now. So my main  

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list has been converted into six main list items, 
and each one of those list items now contains its  

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own sub-list, and all of that has happened 
automatically for me just by moving a List  

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Detection slider from left to right. And when I 
refresh the preview, now we have a nice, perfect,  

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beautiful nested list. Exactly as it appears 
in the PDF. So now that we're done with this  

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document I would save this page, close out of the 
document, and return back to the Document Detail  

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page where I began. And if I go to the Output 
Tab, assuming that I want to export this as PDF,  

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it's really as simple as hitting generate PDF. 
And Equidox is going to produce a brand new file  

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for me. It's going to have all of the same 
visual appearances as this source file does,  

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except it's going to have all of the tag structure 
automatically put together for it based on how I  

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just set up all of those reading zones. So that's 
really all there is to it with Equidox. When  

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you're remediating, you just lay out the reading 
zones according to what you're seeing on the page,  

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checking your HTML preview to confirm and 
validate your work, and then when you return  

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to the Document Detail page, you select 
the format of your choice and hit generate.  

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Keep in mind we can also export to HTML and 
ePUB as well. So three separate formats.  

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Okay, so we are right up against 2:30. Tammy 
I'm not sure if there were any questions...  

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The only other thing I might mention is 
the fact that if you are interested in  

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learning more about Equidox (this is 
really just a high-level overview),  

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if you would like to see a more comprehensive demo 
or talk about how this might fit into your own  

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organization's workflow, we are more than happy to 
give demos on an individual level. So please feel  

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free to reach out to our sales team and they can 
be found either at EquidoxSales@onixnet.com, or  

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Equidox.co. Or we're very active on LinkedIn. 
Or you can contact us by phone as well. 

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Tammy: We did not have any questions 
that I was unable to answer.  

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I just want to let everyone know that we will be 
doing another webinar next month on power tools,  

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which will review some of the time-saving 
features of Equidox in just a little bit more  

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detail. Again we'll be looking at the 
Smart Detection tools, our reading order  

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decimal system, keyboard shortcuts, and 
how to collaborate on large documents.  

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So we'll be doing that on November 18th. And we 
may have a surprise webinar slotted in before  

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or after that with a really exciting new feature 
that I'm not going to tell you guys about. But  

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you can keep an eye out for it. You'll all get an invite. Thanks for coming everybody! 

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Dan: Yup! Thank you everyone. 
have a great rest of your day!

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