[blindlaw] reading scanned PDF's

[James Weisberg]

I use Kurzweil and select "virtual scanner" and the program OCR's it.  I
then save it as a Word doc to read or whatever.

James

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From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
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Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 12:34 AM
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Mike,

The full version of Adobe Reader works perfectly with the image files.  It
will tell you that the document is blank, do you want it to match it with
the closest character.  it takes maybe 30 seconds and will fix a clean
document perfectly.  I think this would be the easiest because the OCR
programs work less than it fails.

so, check out the full version of Adobe 9.0.  It should work fine.  I'm
using this method at the firm I work at.  Hope that helps.

Will
mruniverse08 at gmail.com 

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From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
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Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 9:02 AM
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If you have OpenBook, you can either open the file using OpenBook or print 
the file and select the Freedom Import Printer, which will send it to 
OpenBook directly from Adobe.

Tom
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Blaine Deutscher" <b.m.deutscher at sasktel.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 8:52 AM
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> Another option, and this is what I did for my University courses, is
> purchase a PDF converter such as nuonce PDF converter. it's in the price
> range of $112 for the professional version.  The only difference between 
> the
> one that I have ($95) and the professional version is you can go back and
> convert word or text files into PDF from myunderstanding from people that
> have the professional version.  Hope this helps.
>
> Blaine
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <ckrugman at sbcglobal.net>
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> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 12:53 AM
> 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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