[blindlaw] line numbering on depositions

[Charles Krugman]

I would not rely on the JAWS OCR feature for this purpose as the results 
would not be specific enough for what you are needing.

Chuck

-----Original Message----- 
From: Rahul Bajaj via blindlaw
Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2015 8:49 AM
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Cc: Rahul Bajaj
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] line numbering on depositions

Hi Laura,

Insofar as the OCR functionality provided by JAWS is concerned, you need to 
press insert+space to activate what is called layered mode. You can then 
press o for starting the OCR process, but you have to press a specific key 
after that depending on what it is that you want to perform the OCR 
operation on i.e. w for windows; s for screen, etc. So for instance, if you 
want to perform the ocr operation on the current window, you need to press 
insert+ space followed by o and w.  I should note that JAWS automatically 
switches to the jaws cursor when you do this, so the text is read by a 
rather muffled and unpleasant voice.
Jaws' ocr functionality should help, but this is a genuine accessibility 
challenge, so I would get the line numbers verified by a sighted person 
before submitting the assignment if I were you.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jul 9, 2015, at 9:05 PM, Laura Wolk via blindlaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> 
> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am working with depositions for the first time, but am having
> trouble figuring out how to read a copy where the line numbering is
> preserved so that I can cite to it correctly. The pdf copies have not
> been ocr'd. I tried opening them in k1000 with moderate but unreliable
> success. when I try opening them in the pdf editor, it just says it's
> a blank document.
>
> Any assistance with either how to use Kurzweil to preserve line
> numbering or how to get another pdf program to recognize the file
> would be greatly appreciated.  I know new versions of jaws have some
> sort of OCR functionality built in; I've been looking but can't find
> it. This assignment has a short turn around, otherwise I would do more
> digging myself before asking on-list. Any assistance or advice would
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> Best,
>
> Laura
>
>> On 6/19/15, Stewart, Christopher K via blindlaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> 
>> wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> For the past year, I've simply struggled with footnotes and endnotes
>> in my law journal assignments, patiently waiting for JAWS to read
>> them. I've heard others complain of JAWS' lack of responsiveness in
>> these fields, but I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions. Is it
>> my computer? Is it Word? Is there any sort of workaround? One thing I
>> did was to copy and paste all the footnotes into the body of a second
>> document, edit them accordingly, then paste them back in, but even
>> this is clumbsy when I already have several documents open containing
>> source material, my own notes, Etc. I appreciate any advice.
>>
>> Best,
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>> Senior Staff Editor, Kentucky Law Journal
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