Use of LLMs in preparing accessible scientific papers
Digital Libraries
2025-08-05 v1
Abstract
Making scientific papers accessible may require reprocessing old papers to create output compliant with accessibility standards. An important step there is to convert the visual formatting to the logical one. In this report we describe our attempt at zero shot conversion of arXiv papers. Our results are mixed: while it is possible to do conversion, the reliability is not too good. We discuss alternative approaches to this problem.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2508.00826,
title = {Use of LLMs in preparing accessible scientific papers},
author = {Allison Doami and Christine James and Dan Lu and Lia Prins and Annette Torrence and Boris Veytsman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.00826},
year = {2025}
}