[Ct-nfb] PDF Accessibility

[David Andrews]

Yes, you can do that with a PDF that is an image, 
and K1000.  Whoever told you that it couldn't be done was wrong.]

Dave

At 02:36 PM 4/28/2012, you wrote:
>Someone told me that you could take a PDF that's 
>currently just a picture file and run it through 
>Kurzweil without printing and scanning.  It 
>sounds like you're saying that isn't true, and 
>that kind of bums me out.  I have Kurzweil and 
>haven't gotten around to setting it up yet.  The 
>adaptive technologist employed by East 
>Carolina's Disability Support Services can turn 
>around big PDFs I send him in a matter of 
>minutes, so I'll ask him what he uses for that and let everyone know.
>
>Justin
>
>Justin M. Salisbury
>Undergraduate Student
>The Honors College
>East Carolina University
>salisburyj08 at students.ecu.edu
>
>“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, 
>committed citizens can change the world; indeed, 
>it’s the only thing that ever has.”    —MARGARET MEAD
>
>________________________________________
>From: ct-nfb-bounces at nfbnet.org 
>[ct-nfb-bounces at nfbnet.org] on behalf of Trevor 
>Attenberg [tattenberg at gmail.com]
>Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 2:16 PM
>To: 'NFB of Connecticut Mailing List'
>Subject: Re: [Ct-nfb] PDF Accessibility
>
>Some of the newer JAWS versions are supposed to have better graphic reading
>abilities, I.E. they can decipher words that are not previously formatted as
>text. Or that's what they'll have us believe. Kurzweil and Openbook are
>scanning tools, so you can print and scan, and then have readable
>documents--very time consuming. If a PDF is properly formatted as text, you
>should be able to read it with JAWS for Windows, and certainly other tools
>like Zoomtext's doc reader. You can also quickly resave the PDF as a word
>document using the Adobe file menu. JFW is the best there is for screen
>reading so far as I know. Now don't I look like a computer whiz? Not I.
>Trevor
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ct-nfb-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:ct-nfb-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
>Of Salisbury, Justin Mark
>Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 1:39 PM
>To: NFB of Connecticut Mailing List
>Subject: [Ct-nfb] PDF Accessibility
>
>It could depend on which type of PDF we're using.  Some PDFs have text
>formatting in them so that text can be copied and pasted out of them, while
>others have text in them that is locked as a picture file only so that it is
>a picture of text rather than text itself.
>
>I use one of the weakest screen reading packages on the market, and it can
>read the PDFs with the highlightable text.
>
>Another option may be Kurzweil.
>
>Justin
>
>Justin M. Salisbury
>Undergraduate Student
>The Honors College
>East Carolina University
>salisburyj08 at students.ecu.edu
>
>"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
>the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."    -MARGARET MEAD
>
>________________________________________
>From: ct-nfb-bounces at nfbnet.org [ct-nfb-bounces at nfbnet.org] on behalf of
>Terry Hulbert [j.hulbert at worldnet.att.net]
>Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 9:29 PM
>To: 'NFB of Connecticut Mailing List'
>Subject: Re: [Ct-nfb] Vision Dynamics and Independent Transportation
>market  Saturday April 28th
>
>Beth, Is it too much to ask that you put all PDF files into a word format.
>All you need to do, if you have a scanners do especially with multi function
>printing etc. My screen reader JFW does not read PDF files. It would be so
>helpful if you could place your attachments in to a Word format.
>
>Thanks
>
>Terry
>
>From: ct-nfb-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:ct-nfb-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
>Of Elizabeth Rival
>Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 11:11 AM
>To: 'NFB of Connecticut Mailing List'
>Cc: 'Margaret Smith-Hale'
>Subject: [Ct-nfb] Vision Dynamics and Independent Transportation market
>Saturday April 28th
>
>Hi all, our walk for independence on April 28th ITN, , info attached, will
>also have the presence of Vision Dynamics available to you, to look at with
>Braille and low vision products, come stop by Charlie's booth, pick up a
>raffle prize . Also, a magician and other activities, Thanks Beth Rival