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Filed July 15, 2024
Sample County Elections Dept.
Committee Campaign Finance Report
Committee ID
SC-2029-Q2Committee nameSample County Election Committee
Office sought
County — District 2 Supervisor State City/Town
Financial summary
| Activity | Amount |
|---|---|
| Beginning balance | $1,825.00 |
| Total receipts | $4,975.00 |
| Total disbursements | $7,032.29 |
| Ending balance | $(232.29) |
TreasurerMorgan Sample
Date filedJul 19, 2024
Document received
0 / 4 fixes applied
Reading order
Form labels
Table structure
Alt text added
How it works
A pipeline, not a button.
Six stages that turn any document — scanned, printed, or handwritten — into compliant, verified output.
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Upload
Your document arrives. Paperlyft accepts scanned, printed, born-digital, and handwritten input — in any combination.
- Scanned PDF, PNG, JPG
- Born-digital PDFs
- Handwritten forms
- Multi-page documents
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Read + extract
Every word on the page is read — including cursive handwriting. Extracted text appears alongside the original for comparison.
- Handwriting recognition
- Multi-column layouts
- Tables and forms
- Original preserved for comparison
03
Tag + structure
Every element gets its semantic role — headings, form fields, tables, reading order. The bones of accessibility.
- PDF/UA tag tree
- Reading order
- Alt text for images
- Form field labels
04
Validate
Every tagged element is checked against WCAG 2.1 AA, PDF/UA, and Section 508. Failures are flagged with specific violations — not just pass/fail.
- Contrast ratios
- Reading order integrity
- Tag tree completeness
- Section 508 conformance
05
Auto-remediate
Flagged elements are repaired automatically where confidence is high. Anything uncertain is escalated to human review.
- Standards-based repairs
- Confidence thresholds
- Revalidation after fix
- Escalation to review
06
Human review
Every document is verified by a human reviewer before release. Nothing ships unseen.
- Full document inspection
- Issue-by-issue resolution
- Approve & finalize
- Audit trail
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Upload
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Read + extract
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Tag + structure
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Validate
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Auto-remediate
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Human review
Human review cockpit
Every document, verified before it ships.
AI does the tagging. People verify the result. Every issue is surfaced, resolved, and documented before a document is finalized.
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Original scanned PDF
Converted accessible PDF
Jul 15, 2024BLOCKING
Sample County Elections Dept.
COMMITTEE CAMPAIGN FINANCE REPORT
Committee IDSAMPLE-2024-Q2
Committee nameSample County Election Committee
Office sought
Financial summary
| Activity | This period |
|---|---|
| (a) Beginning balance | $1,825.00 |
| (b) Total receipts | $4,975.00WARNING |
| (c) Total disbursements | $7,032.29 |
| (d) Ending balance | $(232.29) |
Accessibility Issues
0 of 4 issues resolved (0%)
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Document approved
Accessible PDF ready for download.
WCAG 2.1 AA compliant
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Tags alone don't make a document accessible. These are the failures that pass automated checks.
Broken reading order
Content tags exist, but screen readers announce them in an order that has nothing to do with how the page looks.
Missing alt text
Images pass through the tagger unlabeled, invisible to anyone who cannot see them.
Silent form fields
Interactive fields never announce themselves. A form with no labels is a form that cannot be filled.
Paperlyft catches every one of these — not by generating better tags, but by validating that each one actually works.
What we handle
Any input. Compliant output.
One pipeline, built to handle every document your office produces.
Scanned print
Faded carbon, photocopies, decades-old originals.
Born-digital PDFs
Native exports that still fail audits.
Fillable forms
Interactive fields, checkboxes, dropdowns.
Multi-page records
Property deeds, court filings, benefits applications.
Complex layouts
Tables, multi-column layouts, embedded images, footnotes.
Equal access
Public documents should be public.
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Accessibility isn't a feature — it's how public information reaches the people it belongs to.
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