[Cabs-talk] Fwd: [nabs-l] PDF Files

[David Andrews]

What does it say in Adobe Reader, "empty document."  If so it 
contains an image, not text and you will have to use Kurzweil, or 
something else to convert it, do OCR on the image and extract text.

Dave

At 10:11 AM 11/4/2013, you wrote:
>Hi,
>Yes, I tried opening it through adobe. But for some reason my Jaws will not
>read it.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Cabs-talk [mailto:cabs-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Ken Quinn
>Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 5:41 AM
>To: California Association of Blind Students Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [Cabs-talk] Fwd: [nabs-l] PDF Files
>
>
>  did you try using adobe?
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Darian Smith" <dsmithnfb at gmail.com>
>To: "cabs-talk blind students" <cabs-talk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 12:15 AM
>Subject: [Cabs-talk] Fwd: [nabs-l] PDF Files
>
>
> > any one  have any ideas for our friend?
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> >> From: "Hannah Chadwick" <sparklylicious at gmail.com>
> >> Subject: [nabs-l] PDF Files
> >> Date: November 3, 2013 at 8:56:09 PM PST
> >> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
> >> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> >> Reply-To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> >> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> >>
> >> Hello list,
> >> I'm currently using Jaws 14 with my windows 7 pc. It seems that a lot of
> >> documents, especially academic ones are in pdf files. I was just
> >> wondering
> >> how you read these file types? I've been converting most of them in to
> >> word
> >> files, however when I do, they become very messy. I look forward to your
> >> responses.
> >> Best, Hannah chadwick
> >> University of California, Davis CA