[blindlaw] Questions about Reading Large Documents

[Jim McCarthy]

Karla,
Thanks as I hate the find/search feature in adobe. I guess it is a simple
solution and I feel a bit stupid for not thinking of it, but now I know.
Jim McCarthy

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From: BlindLaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Karla
Gilbride via BlindLaw
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2016 11:55 AM
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Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Questions about Reading Large Documents

Rahul,

When I work with pdfs, I use the JAWS find command ((insert+control+f) and
it works much better than the regular find command in Adobe. Hope this
helps.

Karla


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From: BlindLaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Rahul Bajaj
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Sent: Friday, August 26, 2016 9:13 AM
To: Gregory Chang Patti
Cc: Rahul Bajaj; Blind Law Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Questions about Reading Large Documents

Hi Patti,

Thank you for your helpful response.
I am assuming that by accessible copies you mean accessible PDFs. Are you
able to work with large PDF documents without much difficulty?
More specifically, are you able to use the find command in Adobe Reader in
an efficient fashion, considering that it does not work well with JAWS?
Further, it is also very difficult to copy text from a PDF document, so that
is why I generally prefer using Word documents.
Finally, have you configured Adobe Reader to read the entire document in a
consolidated fashion, or do you instead use the single-page view option?
Your responses to these 3 questions will be incredibly useful. Thank you.

Best,
Rahul

On 26/08/2016, Gregory Chang Patti <pattischang at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have sometimes asked opposing counsel to send me an accessible copy.  
> I matter of factly explain the conversion issues and let them know 
> that I can respond more quickly if they can accommodate me.  The 
> majority have had no problem doing so.
>
>
> "Every day we raise the expectations of blind people in the National 
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>
> Patti Gregory Chang
> National Federation of the Blind of Illinois, Treasurer NFB 
> Scholarship Committee Chair pattischang at gmail.com NFB of IL:
> www.nfbofillinois.org
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>
> On Aug 26, 2016, at 12:42 AM, Rahul Bajaj via BlindLaw 
> <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I hope this message finds you well.
> I wanted to solicit suggestions from you all about the possible 
> strategies that I may be able to adopt to deal with the following
> challenges:
> A. Almost all documents that I am required to read in order to draft 
> any written submission in an ongoing litigation are in the form of 
> inaccessible PDFs. While FineReader helps me convert these documents 
> into word and helps make them partially accessible, the quality of the 
> output is still not up to the mark. More specifically, I face the 
> following 2 problems:
> 1. Tables in the original PDF get disintegrated into several parts 
> which makes it difficult to make sense of the information that they 
> contain; 2. Since the devil is always in the detail, it is critical to 
> access specific bits of information such as the date on which a 
> certain event happened, the para number of the submission of the other 
> party, the precise figures that have been set forth, etc. Even though 
> I use Fine Reader 11 and have tried using applications like 
> RoboBraille to obtain better conversion results, the final Word 
> Document often does not convey such information accurately. For 
> instance, if I have to draft a para-wise reply to the other party's 
> written submission, I need to know the precise para number in which 
> they have set forth a specific assertion. I am unable to do so at this 
> juncture.
> B. In a large word document, how can I quickly jump to a certain 
> document that forms the subject matter of the legal dispute? For 
> instance, if I have to quickly refer to a letter that one party may 
> have sent to the other, how can I get to that in an expeditious 
> fashion? The table of contents delineates the page numbers on which 
> various documents can be found, but unlike a PDF, one cannot jump to a 
> certain page number in a Word document, as far as I know. Further, the 
> sequence of the page numbers also gets disrupted by the conversion 
> process from PDF to Word.
>
> Would be grateful if anyone could share possible ideas for grappling 
> with these challenges.
>
> Best,
> Rahul
>
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