[blindlaw] reading scanned PDF's
Hyde, David W. (ESC)
david.hyde at wcbvi.k12.wi.us
Mon Nov 1 15:16:19 UTC 2010
I'm still using 2003. The conversion is under Microsoft office tools.
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From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Steve Jacobson
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 8:27 AM
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Subject: Re: [blindlaw] reading scanned PDF's
I don't remember the details, but the conversion is only in certain versions of word as I understand it so won't work in all cases. If you have the conversion engine, you are right. As far as I can determine, the versions of Word I have do not have it. Do you know which versions do?
Best regards,
Steve Jacobson
On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 07:41:50 -0500, Hyde, David W. (ESC) wrote:
>Hi David. You're right, but you can use the conversion engine built into MS Word.
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>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.
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