[blindlaw] reading scanned PDF's

Mon Sep 29 02:51:37 UTC 2014

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.

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> 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 
> 
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>> On Sep 28, 2014, at 17:19, Shannon via blindlaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> What is k1,000?
>> 
>> Sincerely,
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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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