[blindlaw] Question

Mon Jun 1 14:35:40 UTC 2009

If you have Openbook version 8, you have a built-in virtual printer
command, which takes any document, including an Adobe that is just a
picture/image of a page, and sends it directly to Openbook for text
conversion.  You invoke this by starting the normal print command, and
under the printer option, choose the Freedom Import Printer option.  Hit
enter, and it will automatically start Openbook.  Freedom Scientific
recommends manually starting Openbook first, but I have not had problems
in letting the Freedom Import Printer start OB.

-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of rjs059 at peoplepc.com
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 7:17 PM
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Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Question

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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Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Question

> Finereader and Omnipage do this as well. They are about half the cost
of
> Kurzweil or OpenBook.
>
> -----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 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
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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
>> To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
>> 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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