[blindlaw] Pulling for Law Review
James Fetter
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Thu Aug 18 19:24:36 UTC 2016
Yes, and it does a very good job. It sometimes even manages to identify
tables and structure them as such in the Word doc, and it also does a
fair job of picking up on fonts, including italics. It also is good for
scanning, if you have to scan and send a properly formatted document,
say, a signed contract, to a sighted person, and it allows for the
conversion of pdf-to-word (including OCR) from file explorer (once
installed, options appear under the applications menu to convert pdf as
document to word, as spreadsheet to excel, etc). I think it's over $100,
but I have found it useful for a variety of things. And, as for the pdf
merging business, well, I hope that I can change that and a variety of
other things next year. Out of curiosity, does your journal still have
people physically mark up printed documents as part of the editing
process? Mine does, and although I can obviously use the word version of
the article instead, I have wondered how common that particular
requirement is as well.
On 8/18/2016 3:14 PM, kelby carlson via BlindLaw wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: BlindLaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of kelby
>>>>> carlson via BlindLaw
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 11:13 AM
>>>>> To: Blind Law Mailing List <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
>>>>> Cc: kelby carlson <kelbycarlson at gmail.com>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Pulling for Law Review
>>>>>
>>>>> 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'
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> 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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