[blindlaw] reading scanned PDF's

David Andrews dandrews at visi.com
Wed Oct 1 15:16:21 UTC 2014 

The next version of JAWS, 16, will have the ability to do OCR on 
entire PDF's that are scanned images.

Dave

At 10:09 AM 9/29/2014, you wrote:
>Nuance PDF Pro or Nuance Power PDF are pretty  good softwares for OCR
>and creating PDF needs.
>
>On 9/29/14, Paul Wick via blindlaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> > All,
> > If you happen to have full Adobe acrobat, and not just Adobe 
> Acrobat reader,
> > you can have it search for all possible OCR objects and change the
> > recognition resolution level as well; I have used it to fix many a badly
> > scanned PDF.
> >
> > Best,
> > Paul Wick
> > Berkeley, Calif.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> On Sep 28, 2014, at 5:02 PM, Sybren Hoekstra via blindlaw
> >> <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> kurzweil 1000. its software that does really good ocr. it also costs about
> >> 1000 dollars.
> >>
> >> sy
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >>> On Sep 28, 2014, at 17:19, Shannon via blindlaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> What is k1,000?
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> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: blindlaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Laura
> >>> Wolk
> >>> via blindlaw
> >>> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2014 12:20 AM
> >>> To: Sexton, bruce; Blind Law Mailing List
> >>> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] reading scanned PDF's
> >>>
> >>> hi,
> >>>
> >>> you might try this service, which is free:
> >>> http://www.robobraille.org/introduction-robobraille
> >>>
> >>> I have only used it once or twice, as i have the newest version of jaws
> >>> and
> >>> k1000. But, on the two or three occasions where I have used it, it has
> >>> turned untagged pdfs into readable jaws files or converted them to word.
> >>> it
> >>> at least beats printing and rescanning the whole thing.
> >>>
> >>> HTH,
> >>> Laura
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On 9/28/14, Sexton, bruce via blindlaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >>>> If you get JAWS 16, it  has OCR capability.
> >>>>
> >>>> -Bruce
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> >>>> On Behalf Of Hyde, David W. (ESC)
> >>>> Sent: Monday, November 1, 2010 7:16 AM
> >>>> To: 'NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List'
> >>>> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] reading scanned PDF's
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm still using 2003. The conversion is under Microsoft office tools.
> >>>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> >>>> On Behalf Of Steve Jacobson
> >>>> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 8:27 AM
> >>>> To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
> >>>> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] reading scanned PDF's
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't remember the details, but the conversion is only in certain
> >>>> versions of word as I understand it so won't work in all cases.  If
> >>>> you have the conversion engine, you are right.  As far as I can
> >>>> determine, the versions of Word I have do not have it.  Do you know
> >>>> which versions do?
> >>>>
> >>>> Best regards,
> >>>>
> >>>> Steve Jacobson
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 07:41:50 -0500, Hyde, David W. (ESC) wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hi David. You're right, but you can use the conversion engine built
> >>>>> into  MS
> >>>> Word.
> >>>>
> >>>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>>> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> >>>>> On Behalf Of David Andrews
> >>>>> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 9:09 PM
> >>>>> To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
> >>>>> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] reading scanned PDF's
> >>>>
> >>>>> If the PDF does contain a scanned document, pasting into Word will do
> >>>>> no good, because it is an image of a page.  OCR must be done on the
> >>>>> PDF, or the
> >>>> PDF would have to be printed to paper then run through optical
> >>>> character recognition, OCR.
> >>>>
> >>>>> Dave
> >>>>
> >>>>> At 11:23 AM 10/26/2010, you wrote:
> >>>>>> 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.
> >>>>
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