[blindlaw] reading scanned PDF's

[Dan Beitz]

I have had very good luck with omnipage.




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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 1:20 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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Laura Wolk
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