[blindLaw] ABYY FineReader Stability with Jaws?

[kelby carlson]

Laura,

Please contact me offlist. I use this at work and have been experimenting; I now have a reasonably successful way of doing it.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Aug 4, 2019, at 9:59 AM, Rahul Bajaj via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Laura,
> 
> I use ABBYY as an instrument to convert PDFS into  word documents all the time. however, I suspect that you are envisaging its use to read PDF  documents as such, as a substitute for adobe reader.  I have never done this yet. best,
> Rahul   
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Aug 3, 2019, at 5:45 PM, Amar Jain via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I do it on day to day basis. It is the best solution. You can call me on +91-9892622230 or email me (there may be little delay in responses). Or Whats App is also fine.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Amar Jain
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On 03-Aug-2019, at 4:49 PM, Laura Wolk via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> All,
>>> 
>>> If anyone regularly uses ABYY FineReader instead of Adobe for handling
>>> PDFs, I would really appreciate being contacted offline.  Here's the
>>> skinny.
>>> 
>>> My job is extremely PDF heavy,often with horribly tagged and un-ocr'd
>>> documents, which we have no way of controlling.  For years, I rely
>>> typically on K1000 as a work-around Adobe's finickiness with Jaws.
>>> Except that, for reasons we can't understand, K1000 will not launch on
>>> my system.  We've been working diligently on this for three weeks with
>>> no success.  In the meantime, I've had to rely on Adobe pro, which for
>>> reasons well rehashed, we all know is not a sustainable option. (Note,
>>> in my copious free time, ha! I have been trying to negotiate with
>>> Vispero and Adobe on this).
>>> 
>>> The potentially good news is that I do also have access to ABBYY
>>> FineReader.  I've heard people mention this in the past as a
>>> substitute for K1000 or OpenBook, but not as a PDF reader.  Yesterday,
>>> I tried loading a PDF in it, got some notice like "loading scans,"
>>> nothing happened after about a minute, and I panicked, basically
>>> thinking "I don't have time to figure this out now, I need to get this
>>> done," and resorted back to Adobe.
>>> 
>>> So if anyone has success with this program and can charitably donate
>>> their time to me to give me a crash course instead of having me
>>> self-teach and figure out if there's some settings I need to tweak or
>>> whatever, I would be ever so grateful.
>>> 
>>> thanks much,
>>> Laura
>>> 
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