[blindlaw] Accessing restricted court documents

Sun Jun 16 16:03:26 UTC 2013

Actually, the best place to get it is to download it from Nuance.com.  I
think the basic omnipage is $99.  You don't need the professional version or
paper port or anything like that.  Just Omnipage will do it.  It is very
accessible with screen readers, and the context menu item in windows
explorer works great.

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-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Daniel
McBride
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2013 11:57 AM
To: 'Blind Law Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Accessing restricted court documents

Daniel:

I assume Omnipage is an OCR software program that one can purchase at their
local office supply.  How much is the program?

Daniel McBride
Fort Worth, Texas

-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Daniel K.
Beitz
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2013 10:34 AM
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Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Accessing restricted court documents

If you can get the PDF, you can use omnipage to OCR it.  Omnipage installs
an item in your context menue.  After the OCR is done, it creates a word
document with the same name as the PDF.  It is great.  No need to scan.  I
assume that the OCR software is more updated than open book.

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-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Dittman,
Robert
Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2013 6:48 PM
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Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Accessing restricted court documents

Hello Paul, please excuse any typos or spelling errors as I am dictating
this message to you using my iPhone. I am a criminal defense attorney and I
frequently use the discovery system from the District Attorney's Office. The
problem with this system, is that it utilizes scanned images as PDF
documents. Such documents are not text PDFs, but are rather scanned images
that my screen reader will not read. I see absolutely no problem with your
Your assistant reading the document to you, or, in the alternative, you
printing the text based PDF or image-based PDFs and scanning it using an OCR
program such as open book I would speak with the custodian of the documents
to see what reasonable accommodation they may have in place. The basic prime
directive, is that if you have been granted access to the document then you
must be able to move heaven and earth to gain access to that document using
what ever modification that is necessary in order for you to access the
information of that document. I hope that this helps if you wish to speak
with me over the telephone or via email in trying to put some of this into
action please feel free to contact me.
Robert Dittman, Esq. 
Atty. and Counselor at Law
(210) 389 - 3388
Rdittman at me.com

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 15, 2013, at 15:37, "Paul Wick" <wickps at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> I have a question concerning access to restricted judicial records by 
> blind people, (I am a blind attorney, but this is for my own research 
> not for a client.)
> 
> I have been granted access to view a restricted document in a rural 
> courthouse, but I was wondering what list members think would be a 
> more reasonable accomodation of my disability either to (1) execute a 
> power of attorney and have someone else view it, and allow that person 
> to take notes, or (2) alternatively, if my presence is required, that 
> my assistant be allowed to accompany me to wherever the restricted 
> documents are stored and that they be allowed to take notes.
> 
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks for your time.
> 
> Paul
> 
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