[blindlaw] reading scanned PDF's

[ckrugman at sbcglobal.net]

This is where OCR software such as Kurzweil or Open book comes in. The 
document can be read with either of those programs without much difficulty 
as long as it is a good scan of the document.
Chuck
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Gilmore" <m_b_gilmore at yahoo.com>
To: <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 9:23 AM
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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