ADA PDF Cover

Adds a branded accessibility cover page to every PDF in a folder tree, helping organizations meet ADA Title II compliance for archived public documents.

Features

• Interactive menu with dry-run preview before committing changes
• Batch processing with live progress bar
• Configurable header and text colors (hex)
• Logo support: provide a URL, place logo.svg next to the script, or omit entirely
• Archives originals to _old_pdfs/ preserving subfolder structure
• Separates encrypted PDFs to _encrypted_pdfs/
• Copies unreadable/error PDFs to _failed_pdfs/
• Replace mode to update cover pages on already-processed PDFs

Requirements

• Python 3.9+
• Dependencies are auto-installed on first run:
  • pypdf
  • reportlab
  • svglib
  • rich
  • requests
  • lxml

Usage

python add_accessibility_cover.py

1. Enter the path to the folder containing PDFs
2. Provide contact details for the cover page
3. Choose Dry Run to preview, then Full Run to apply

Logo

Place a logo.svg file next to the script to include your organisation's logo on the cover page. Alternatively, provide a URL to an SVG in the Configure menu. If neither is available, the cover page is generated without a logo.

Colors

Use the Configure menu to set custom header banner and body text colors via hex codes (e.g. #043659).

License

See LICENSE for details.