[blindlaw] Question

Mon Jun 1 02:16:32 UTC 2009

I have openbook on my computer. What are you talking the vertual scanner? RJ
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From: "Angie Matney" <angie.matney at gmail.com>
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> 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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> 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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>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 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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>> 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
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>>
>>> 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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