[blindlaw] reading scanned PDF's

[Sexton, bruce]

If you get JAWS 16, it  has OCR capability. 

-Bruce 
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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
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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
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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
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>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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