[blindlaw] reading scanned PDF's

[Joe Orozco]

ABBYY Finereader.  Don't be a conformist! (grin)

Joe

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-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org 
[mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of ckrugman at sbcglobal.net
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 2:54 AM
To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] reading scanned PDF's

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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