[blindLaw] accessible solution for splitting large pdfs

[Brian Unitt]

Hi Rahul,

The slow loading of files is one of the most frustrating things about Adobe. I routinely read appellate records with volumes of 300 pages which take several minutes to load, but Even 20-30 page files take unacceptably long to load. For the three or so years I have been using Foxit Reader which loads large files instantly. 
https://www.foxit.com/pdf-reader/
It's not perfect (nothing about PDF is) but it's better than Adobe. By the way I can only speak to using it with JAWS, I don't use any other screen reader.

Brian
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Subject: [blindLaw] accessible solution for splitting large pdfs

Hi all,

As a practicing attorney, I often have to deal with very bulky files [300+ pages] in my work. JAWS tends to freeze when such a large file is opened in Adobe. One workaround that I have found is to split the file, such that I can extract the relevant pages from the bulky file and read them as a separate PDF. DOes anyone know of any good, preferably free, solutions that do this?

I'd basically just have to key in the page numbers that I would want to made into a spearate PDF.

Warmly,
Rahul

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Rahul Bajaj
Attorney, Ira Law
Senior Associate Fellow, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy Rhodes Scholar (India and Linacre 2018), University of Oxford Co-Founder, Mission Accessibility Special Correspondent on the rights of persons with disabilities, Oxford Human Rights Hub Coordinator of the working group on accessibility, e-Committee, Supreme Court of India _______________________________________________
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