PDF accessibility, finally made accessible.
Free full audit. $5 a page to fix it. No minimums, no quotes, no software.
Free for PDFs up to 25 pages · no account, no card
Explore a sample audit- Free full auditA plain-English grade, every finding, and a fix plan. No account, no card.
- $5 a page to fixNo minimum, no subscription, no quote. You see the exact total before you pay.
- You review itCheck what a screen reader will say, in order, before anything downloads.
Honest scope: PDF Hound improves PDFs — it does not certify them. Automated and AI-assisted checks fix supported barriers and document what remains: improvements and evidence, not certification or a complete conformance decision. Regulated and other high-stakes work is welcome; have a qualified specialist review the exact final file before you publish.
Free audits cover up to 25 pages. Signed-in customers who have purchased page credits can audit up to 200 pages. Digital and scanned PDFs in 7 supported languages are eligible; password-protected files are not.
Inside the file
A PDF is more than the page you can see.
Underneath your layout sits the structure that decides what a screen reader announces, in what order, and whether a column of numbers means anything at all. In most PDFs that structure is missing, partial, or wrong. Scroll to take a file apart.
- Visual page content Your layout, type, and images: the only layer most people ever see. PDF Hound works beneath it, so what a sighted reader gets does not change.
- Text layer and OCR Words a screen reader can actually reach. Scanned pages get a text layer through OCR, and visible text that never reached the reading experience is routed into it.
- Tags and structure tree A tag on every piece of content saying what it is, not what it looks like. This is the layer assistive technology reads, and it is the one most PDFs never got.
- Reading order The sequence content is announced in, which is rarely the order it sits on the page. You check this one yourself, on screen, before you download anything.
- Headings, lists and landmarks An outline someone can jump through instead of reading from the top, and lists marked as lists rather than stray lines that happen to start with a dot.
- Tables Header cells and scope, so a number arrives with the row and column it belongs to instead of arriving alone.
- Images and figures Alt text for images that carry meaning, and a decorative mark on the ones that do not, so they are skipped rather than described.
- Links and forms Link text that still means something out of context, labelled form fields, and a keyboard tab order that follows the page.
- Document settings Title, primary language, and bookmarks. The outermost layer: how the file introduces itself before a single word is read.
PDF Hound checks every layer below the page, fixes what automation handles well, and tells you plainly what it could not.
Reading Experience Preview
See the page and its reading sequence together.
PDF Hound highlights each fixed area and shows the order in which content is presented to assistive technology.
- 2025 net investment return by asset classHeading level 3
- Returns are net of external investment management fees and are shown against the benchmark adopted by the Boa…Paragraph
- Asset class · Market value · 2025 return · Benchmark · Benchmark return · DifferenceTable
Questions we'd ask too
Is this legal advice?
No. PDF Hound provides automated and AI-assessed evidence plus a plain-English Accessibility Improvement Report showing what ran, what changed, and what remains. It is not legal advice, certification, human-specialist verification, or proof that every condition was evaluated.
How are you different from Equidox, PDFix, or a PDF accessibility agency?
Those options are often built for specialists, desktop workflows, or large document libraries. We're built for the person who has one document and a deadline: upload it, see the price and exactly what we can and can't fix, pay only for the pages you need, and review the reading experience before download.
Where do my files go?
They're encrypted in transit and at rest and processed automatically. Active free-audit files delete after 30 days. Active paid files stay available while you are still looking at the result or your credits are on their way back, then delete 30 days after you download or get your credits back. Encrypted disaster-recovery backups may retain a copy for up to 35 additional days; they are isolated from normal product access and swept before any restore returns to service. We never use your files to train AI models.
How long will my audit or fix take?
Timing depends on page count and content. Small digital PDFs may finish while you wait; scans need OCR and larger or more complex documents run as background jobs. PDF Hound shows live stages and gives you a recovery link, so you can leave and return without losing the job.
What's your refund policy?
If a fix can't pass our checks, you get your credits back — no questions. Credits roll forward to your next document, so you never lose what you paid.
Which PDFs can PDF Hound process?
Free audits cover up to 25 pages. Signed-in customers who have purchased page credits can audit documents up to 200 pages. We support digital or scanned PDFs in English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, and Dutch, and we preserve and fix safe AcroForm fields. A full-page AI screen confirms material language and processing fit; uncertain results can still receive an audit but are held out of the self-serve fix. We decline unreadable or password-protected files, confirmed material use of unsupported languages, scans whose text cannot be recovered reliably, PDFs whose words are drawn as shapes instead of text, oversized or unsafe pages, XFA, applied signatures, unsafe form actions, unsupported form controls, and files above the active page limit.
Can PDF Hound handle text inside images?
Yes, where appropriate. PDF Hound uses AI vision to detect meaningful text that is visually embedded in images and graphics, then adds that content to the assistive-technology reading experience. We do not redesign the image, turn the visual text into editable/resizable source text, or fabricate data behind complex charts. If a faithful accessible alternative needs the original data or source design file, we flag that clearly.
How much does it cost?
The audit is free. If you go ahead with the fix, it is $5 a page. No minimums. No quote required.