€75k · Other round · Software · Vienna, Austria
Vienna AI venture studio Klartext AI has secured a €75,000 non-dilutive grant from the Vienna Business Agency for Doclarity, its software for producing accessible PDF/UA documents. The funding, announced on 20 August 2026, comes through the agency's "Quality of Life" programme, according to Trending Topics and the Tech.eu Funding Explorer.
Doclarity targets the manual work required to make PDFs usable with screen readers and other assistive technologies. Klartext AI says retrofitting an 80-page document can take about two working days. Its product uses AI to help create the structure required by the PDF/UA standard, while specialist users review and approve the result. The company is developing Doclarity with Graz-based research centre Know Center.
Turning accessibility work into a repeatable workflow
The commercial problem is more specific than document conversion. Public bodies, educational institutions and regulated businesses often need to make large volumes of existing files accessible without losing the control needed for compliance. Automating parts of that process can reduce repetitive remediation, but a usable product must also preserve document structure, surface uncertain outputs and fit the review practices of accessibility specialists.
That human-review boundary is central to Doclarity's positioning. On its official site, Klartext AI describes the product as an expert tool in which AI makes the work faster and specialists give final approval. The approach may help the company sell a workflow rather than a one-click converter: buyers are paying for repeatable production and evidence that the resulting files meet accessibility requirements, not simply for generated content.
Klartext AI says more than 70 institutions joined Doclarity's free early-access programme in its first month, including ministries, regional associations and chambers of commerce. brutkasten reported that the company planned to move those users towards regular customer relationships after the early-access phase and pursue broader European expansion in 2027.
Public funding supports the evidence-building stage
The €75,000 award follows €80,000 of support from Austria's FFG between May 2025 and April 2026, while AI Factory Austria has provided mentoring and computing resources since April 2026. That sequence matters because Doclarity still has to turn early institutional testing into a repeatable paid deployment. The new grant can support a product at the stage where technical accuracy, specialist validation and purchasing confidence all need to develop together.
Klartext AI says it was founded in 2025 and remains bootstrapped, with more than ten experts, over twenty clients and three ventures. A non-dilutive grant lets the studio advance Doclarity without changing that equity-funding position. The next proof point is not simply whether AI can restructure a PDF, but whether organisations can integrate the product into high-volume publishing workflows and trust the review trail when accessibility carries legal and operational consequences.
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