[blindLaw] ABYY FineReader Stability with Jaws?

[Angela Matney]

Laura, one quick observation: Without addressing the need for precision when, say, referring to line numbers or making other references to the PDFs that are required for your job, I just want to add that converting files to another format may not take the amount of time one might expect, particularly if you use a mainstream solution. I don’t know how long it takes Kurzweil to convert a PDF because I don’t use that product. In the past, I’ve used Abbyy Finereader; nowadays, I use Nuance Power PDF. Each of these can OCR a file of several hundred pages in a matter of minutes and give good results, barring handwriting or other unusual attributes of the file. I’m in no way saying that we don’t need a better way to access PDF files directly; I’m just suggesting that converting a PDF to Word or another format of choice isn’t necessarily a process that takes hours and hours.

Having said this, it’s certainly true that if you have many, many files, there will be a good amount of time involved. This has happened to me before (involving due diligence for a merger and documents from the other side’s data room). But I’m not sure that the method I used ultimately took more time than I would have spent performing OCR on the PDFs, which would have had to be done in any case because they were images.

I can’t comment on using any of these applications to read PDFs directly. In my mind, converting files to another format is analogous to printing vs reading the PDF on-screen, and while it’s not perfect, it generally works for my purposes.

I hope you’re able to find a solution quickly.

Best,

Angie

Angela Matney, CIPP/US
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