[blindLaw] QRead As a Substitute for Adobe Reader

Rahul Bajaj rahul.bajaj1038 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 6 14:01:24 UTC 2019


Hi All,

So it turns out that ABBYY Fine Reader does not work as a viable
substitute for Adobe Reader to read PDF documents as such. JAWS simply
refuses to interact with the document if you open it in ABBYY - Amar
has confirmed this finding as well.

When I had posted a question about the problems attending the
navigation of PDF documents with JAWS last year, Derek, in the email
below, alluded to an app called QRead which costs around $30. I am
wondering if others here have used this application and have found it
to be a viable substitute for Adobe Reader. Specifically, I am
wondering if it enables you to smoothly read PDFs in para-wise form
and if JAWS does not lose focus while reading the document. If it is a
viable substitute, I will purchase it.

Best,
Rahul



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Derek Dittmar <derekjdittmar at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2018 12:58:05 -0500
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Reading PDFs with JAWS has become infeasible
To: Rahul Bajaj <rahul.bajaj1038 at gmail.com>

Rahul,
I hope this e-mail finds you well. As a third year law student, I
primarily use a small application from an indi blind developer called
QRead.
https://q-continuum.net/qread/
Most of my use of PDFs involves working through assigned readings in
electronic textbooks. I know that QRead does not allow for editing
within pdfs. However, if all you need is a relatively inexpensive (I
think it was $30) pdf reader with good JAWs accessibility, then I
think it might work.
As a  note, I am still using JAWS 16 (ugh). Also, I learned about
QRead from a personal friend who was (and maybe is) working with the
developer for marketing. However, I haven't consulted with her in
sending you this e-mail, and by no means do I get any sort of benefit
from recommending the application. I will tell you that I'm working on
an LL.M. right now, and have about twelve PDFs open in the application
-- several law review articles and a few multi-hundred page textbooks
-- and it is working just fine.

On 11/10/18, Rahul Bajaj via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have JAWSb 2018 and acrobat dc. Jaws keeps automatically jumping up and
> down in PDFs when you select 'read entire document'. Control+up and down
> arrows also doesn't work for para-wise navigation; jaws says blank. Finally,
> even ctrl+shift+n works sporadically.
>
> I have spoken with VFO. They say that the first 2 problems, at least, have
> been widely reported in recent weeks. I am using OCR and word versions as ad
> hoc measures. Do others have any ideas, or can they report this to FS or
> Adobe if they are facing it?
>
> Best,
> Rahul
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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Rahul Bajaj
Candidate for the BCL
Rhodes Scholar (India and Linacre 2018)
University of Oxford




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