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Author: Dane Hillard
Dane Hillard is an Associate Director of Product Engineering at ITHAKA, where he leads engineering for JSTOR's content delivery and accessibility initiatives. He has worked for over a decade at ITHAKA supporting major platform evolution for JSTOR, JSTOR Global Plants, Artstor, and JSTOR Digital Stewardship.
How ITHAKA built an on-demand PDF remediation pipeline on AWS
In this post, we describe how ITHAKA and Amazon Web Services (AWS) collaborated to build an on-demand PDF accessibility pipeline that remediates documents when users need them, serving researchers while using nonprofit resources responsibly. For organizations managing a large document collection under accessibility compliance deadlines, this post shows there is an affordable, practical path forward that doesn’t require converting an entire library upfront.