[blindlaw] Question

[Angie Matney]

Finereader and Omnipage do this as well. They are about half the cost of
Kurzweil or OpenBook.

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From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Steve P. Deeley
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 8:44 PM
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Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Question

Wow, thanks a lot for that information.
Steve
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From: "Ford, Tim (CDPH-OLS)" <Tim.Ford at cdph.ca.gov>
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Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Question


> Yes, this does happened a lot, because the machine on which the PDF scan
> is created is not set to create the imbedded text scan.  If this happens
> a lot and you know the person who is sending you the PDF, then you can
> ask them to go into the software on the scan equipment and check the box
> for text scanning to be included as an imbedded part of the PDF
> document.  It makes the file larger, but not as much an increase as I
> would have guessed.
>
> The alternative is to either get the Adobe Professional level software,
> which comes with a built-in text recognition feature, or in the case of
> Openbook, run it through the Freedom Import virtual scanner, which in my
> experience works better than Adobe's built-in scanner.  Also, the Adobe
> built-in scanner gives no audible feedback while it is working, so with
> a large document, you can sit there for several minutes wondering if it
> is still working or has locked up.
>
> I have no idea if the KW scanning software has a similar feature, but I
> would guess it does, since the two products seem to stay pretty even
> with each other.
>
>
>
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> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of Steve P. Deeley
> Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 7:40 AM
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> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Question
>
> How can you get a scanned document to read.  This seems to be happening
> more and more.  I think folks are using copy-printers to scan and send
> things like newsletters.  This is frustrating, don't you think?
>
> Steve-- Original Message -----
> From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 6:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Question
>
>
>> This happens when the document contains a graphic, not actual
>> text.  Usually this happens because someone scans a document, then
>> makes that image file into a PDF.  You can OCR it, .
>> At 09:45 PM 5/27/2009, you wrote:
>>>Every time I try to open this PDF, it says, "Ellert: empty
>>>document." I tryed converting it to text, but It won't work. Is
>>>their some thing wrong with the document? Please email me off list,
>>>at: rjs59 at hotmail.com Thanks, RJ
>>>
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