[blindlaw] reading scanned PDF's

[Mike Gilmore]

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.

Thanks.

Mike