[blindlaw] reading scanned PDF's

Cathryn Bonnette cathrynisfinally at verizon.net
Tue Oct 26 16:42:30 UTC 2010


Mike,

I've had frequent experiences with this in federal work. I generally choose
the print option. Alternatively, you may save it in a Word file first and
try opening it with Kurzweil. I have had less experience with this, but
another on this list may also have used that method.

Best,

Cathryn Bonnette

-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Mike Gilmore
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 12:24 PM
To: blindlaw at nfbnet.org
Subject: [blindlaw] reading scanned PDF's

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


      
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