[blindlaw] question about reading large documents

[Scott C. Labarre]

Yes, I agree when the underlying PDF is accessible.  When I spoke of the KNFB reader process, I was referring to those wonderful documents that we open up and JAWS etc says "empty document."  Those beautiful scanned images.

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Subject: Re: [blindlaw] question about reading large documents

Hi all,

I haven't read this thread but I like to convert these files to simple txt. That way I find they open and read very quickly and are the more word searchable. Where the document is internally paginated, this works particularly well.

G

On 8/29/16, Scott C. Labarre via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hey folks, I haven't closely followed this whole thread and perhaps 
> someone else has already mentioned this, but when I saw the discussion 
> about the iPhone, it reminded me that the KNFB Reader app does a great 
> job of converting pdf files.  The app is less than $100 and does a 
> good job alos, of course, of taking pictures and putting documents 
> into text.  That is its main purpose, afterall, but it also does a great job with pdf's.
>
> Best,
> Scott
>
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> From: BlindLaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of 
> Melissa Allman via BlindLaw
> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2016 12:00 PM
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> Cc: mrallman116 at gmail.com; Elizabeth Rene <rene0373 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] question about reading large documents
>
>  Hi Elizabeth. I don't think anyone suggested this and yes it is a 
> great idea. M I often do this as well. Unfortunately though, I have 
> found circumstances where I open the PDF in iBooks and it doesn't read 
> it there either.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Aug 29, 2016, at 12:18 PM, Elizabeth Rene via BlindLaw 
>> <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> I haven't followed this thread, so someone may have suggested this 
>> already, but I regularly read 500-1000-page files by having them sent 
>> to me as digital PDF's, then opening them up in iBooks. That way I 
>> can use my iPhone or iPad to listen to them using VoiceOver, or, if 
>> the file comes in pieces, maybe only convert the necessary pieces 
>> into Word for closer reading. Apple handles digital PDFs so beautifully.
>> Elizabeth
>>
>> Elizabeth M René
>> Attorney at Law
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