[blindLaw] ABYY FineReader Stability with Jaws?

Gerard Sadlier gerard.sadlier at gmail.com
Mon Aug 5 20:17:36 UTC 2019


Angie’s comments are well made. I would only add that if the document
contains paragraph numbers those are a good and reliable reference

On Mon 5 Aug 2019 at 20:52 Angela Matney via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> 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
>
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