If I scan a document & save as a PDF, is it AODA compliant (accessible)?

If I scan a document & save as a PDF, is it AODA compliant (accessible)? Or is the only way to ensure this is to convert a Word document into a PDF?
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PDF page content that is solely the scanned image of textual content is not accessible PDF.
A PDF having content that is a scanned image of text (and other content having semantic value in the document) can be made a PDF/UA compliant PDF.
OCR would have to be done. The OCR output would then be corrected (OCR does not provide 100% character recognition accuracy).
This OCR content would then have to have the semantically appropriate PDF elements (tags) provided.
Done properly the PDF becomes PDF/UA-1 compliant.
A PDF/UA-1 compliant PDF will more than satisfiy AODA.
An accessible PDF is an ISO 14289-1:2012 compatible PDF.
ISO 14289-1 (PDF/UA-1) is the ISO standard for accessible PDF.
As with other PDF related ISO standards PDF/UA-1 is based on the ISO standard for PDF (ISO 32000-1).
So to provide an accessible PDF it is good to be familiar with these two ISO standards.
Additional resources are available at the AIIM web site:
http://www.aiim.org/Research-and-Publications/Standards/Committees/PDFUA
Two documents are currently available with a third pending.
--| Achieving WCAG 2.0 with PDF/UA
--| PDF/UA-1 Technical Implementation Guide: Understanding ISO 14289-1 (PDF/UA-1)
--| PDF/UA-1 Technical Implementation Guide: Understanding ISO 32000-1 (PDF 1.7) (under development)
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