[blindlaw] reading scanned PDF's

Mon Sep 29 00:02:15 UTC 2014

kurzweil 1000. its software that does really good ocr. it also costs about 1000 dollars.

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> On Sep 28, 2014, at 17:19, Shannon via blindlaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> What is k1,000?
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> Sincerely,
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Laura Wolk
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> 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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