[blindlaw] reading scanned PDF's

[Hyde, David W. (ESC)]

Hi David. You're right, but you can use the conversion engine built into MS Word. 

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From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of David Andrews
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 9:09 PM
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Subject: Re: [blindlaw] reading scanned PDF's

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.

                         David Andrews:  dandrews at visi.com Follow me on Twitter:  http://www.twitter.com/dandrews920


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