[blindlaw] Question

[T. Joseph Carter]

Of course Kurzweil has similar features, specifically because these 
things are so common.

Incidentally, the Fujitsu ScanSnap scanners (at least the S1500 and 
S1500M for Mac) come with the full version of Adobe Acrobat Pro, as 
well as with a limited (ScanSnap-generated PDF only) version of ABBYY 
FineReader set to just do its thing automatically.

I point it out because a lot of lawyers get really excited when they 
see the ScanSnap in action.  If ScanSnap Manager for Windows can be 
used with JAWS/WE, it's about the best line of document scanners on 
the market.  It doesn't do books unless you chop them up, but its 
purpose is to scan documents--both sides at once, twenty sheets of 
paper per minute.  *grin*

Personally, I don't see ScanSnap Manager's document manager as a big 
loss if it's difficult to use with a screen reader.  My thinking is 
that you'd grow out of it pretty quickly anyway and need to move on 
to a real document database system.  Fujitsu's grown-up document 
manager for Windows is Rack2Filer.  There are about a dozen competing 
document management tools to choose from on the Mac ranging from free 
to about $130 for something like DEVONthink Pro Office (which is how 
I OCR'd RJ's PDF for him..)

Joseph


On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 02:34:55PM -0700, Ford, Tim (CDPH-OLS) wrote:
>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.