[blindlaw] Pulling for Law Review

Thu Aug 18 19:14:50 UTC 2016

Interesting; that is not a requirement on my journal and it sounds
very laborious. Does that software do OCR on PDFs as well?

On 8/18/16, James Fetter via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> For what it's worth, I always convert PDF's to Word first; it makes
> navigation and copy/paste considerably easier. My law review requires
> merging the pdf of the article or other source with the table of
> contents for the volume/issue of the journal in which I found it, and I
> would highly recommend a product (not cheap but very good) called Nuance
> Power PDF Advanced. It works very well as a pdf-to-word converter as
> well, sometimes better than Kurzweil 1000. I have found that even some
> text PDF's do not interact very well with Jaws, hence the strategy of
> preemptive conversion. Congratulations on being on journal, and please
> feel free to reach out with any questions.
>
>
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> On 8/18/2016 12:50 PM, kelby carlson via BlindLaw wrote:
>> My team has already said they will just avoid giving me print sources
>> that haven't already been scanned. I've told them it would probably be
>> easiest for me to convert problematic PDFs into Word with Kurzweil.
>>
>> If anyone has suggestions about using the find feature in Adobe that
>> would be nice.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/18/16, Laura Wolk via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> I second everything Tai said. Except for the caveat that if certain
>>> articles were very print source heavy, I simply just switched off of
>>> them onto other articles. My law review team was very willing to be
>>> flexible with me in that way, as they would with, for instance,
>>> students who were studying abroad and so did not have access to ILL or
>>> to our print library. Alternatively, sometimes I would offer to check
>>> longer ranges of footnotes on articles in exchange for someone else
>>> taking on my print sources. Again, this was also a practice
>>> implemented for students studying abroad. I think the goal is to come
>>> up with equitable yet flexible solutions.
>>>
>>> Laura
>>>
>>> On 8/18/16, Tai Tomasi via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>> I ran inaccessible PDFs through ABYY FineReader or similar OCR software
>>>> when
>>>> possible. If that did not render the document accessible, I worked with
>>>> a
>>>> human reader to access them.
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>>>> From: BlindLaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of kelby
>>>> carlson via BlindLaw
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>>>> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Pulling for Law Review
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>>>> I am not always the one pulling sources directly, and i'm having a lot
>>>> of
>>>> trouble with certain PDFs. The regular ctrl-F command doesn't seem to
>>>> work
>>>> right, and the JAWS find command can only search the page that is on
>>>> the
>>>> screen.
>>>>
>>>> Also, how exactly did you deal with print sources?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 8/18/16, jim--- via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>>> I made journal this year myself, and would appreciate any infor you
>>>>> get
>>>>> 'r'
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>>>>> From: BlindLaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of kelby
>>>>> carlson via BlindLaw
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 12:03 PM
>>>>> To: blindlaw at nfbnet.org
>>>>> Cc: kelby carlson <kelbycarlson at gmail.com>
>>>>> Subject: [blindlaw] Pulling for Law Review
>>>>>
>>>>> All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am wondering if anyone on here has been on law review in the past
>>>>> and has pulled sources. The production team and I are struggling to
>>>>> figure out an efficient process to do this with a screen reader. Any
>>>>> help is greatly appreciated. I'd like to do as much of it
>>>>> independently
>>>>> as
>>>>> possible.
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