[blindlaw] reading scanned PDF's

Mon Sep 29 15:09:57 UTC 2014

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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>>> 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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