[blindlaw] reading scanned PDF's

[Patrick H Stiehm]

If you have Adobe Acrobat there is away to convert an image to a true
PDF, that JAWS should be able tp read.  I can't tell you how to do it but
Adobe customer support should be able to help.

Stiehm Law Office
Alexandria, Virginia
703-360-1089 (Voice)
703-935-8266 (Fax)

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:23:35 -0700 (PDT) Mike Gilmore
<m_b_gilmore at yahoo.com> writes:
> 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
> 
> 
>       
> _______________________________________________
> blindlaw mailing list
> blindlaw at nfbnet.org
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blindlaw_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info 
> for blindlaw:
>
http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/blindlaw_nfbnet.org/stiehm.law%40ju
no.com
> 
> 
 
 
Stiehm Law Office
Alexandria, Virginia
703-360-1089 (Voice)
703-935-8266 (Fax)
Email address: stiehm.law at verizon.net

____________________________________________________________
Get Free Email with Video Mail & Video Chat!
http://www.juno.com/freeemail?refcd=JUTAGOUT1FREM0210