[blindlaw] reading scanned PDF's

[David Andrews]

If the PDF does contain a scanned document, pasting into Word will do 
no good, because it is an image of a page.  OCR must be done on the 
PDF, or the PDF would have to be printed to paper then run through 
optical character recognition, OCR.

Dave

At 11:23 AM 10/26/2010, you wrote:
>I was wondering if anyone has come across my problem. Sometimes, 
>documents are scanned into a PDF. When they are open, JAWS says that 
>it's an empty document because, to JAWS, the scanned document is an 
>image and therefore is treated as if it doesn't exist. Short of 
>printing out the entire document (which can be very time-consuming 
>and wasteful of paper if the document is rather long), is there any 
>way to work around this problem? I thought of copying  and pasting 
>the entire document into a Word document so JAWS can read it. This 
>works except when the PDF has been made secure and therefore cannot 
>be copied and pasted.

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