[humanser] JAWS 16 and pdf

David Andrews dandrews at visi.com
Sat Jul 18 18:10:15 UTC 2015


As I understand it, JAWS 16 can do OCR on a whold PDF that is an 
image.  I think you do jaws key-space, then o for ocr and d for 
document but could be wrong.

Did around in jaws help, or the what's new in 16 on their site, or 
write support at freedomscientific.com and ask for instructions.

Dave

At 08:39 AM 7/18/2015, you wrote:
>All,
>
>I hope the return from convention finds you rested and well relaxed. My
>curiosities are piqued as I make an attempt to read an exciting new book
>that I will share with the students with whom I will work. The problem is
>this, I just downloaded JAWS 16 on my computer and at the time I was told by
>Freedom Scientific that I would be able to access pdf with only the screen
>reading software. I have scanned the chapters of the book but, when I open
>the chapter I hear "Document unavailable". Is there something that I am
>doing wrong or something that I need to do? I ask because I have found so
>many on this list have great accessibility fixes. The book is a great
>resource for anyone who does group work in your therapy provision. Rutan,
>S., Stone, W., & Shay, J. (2014). Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy (5th
>ed.). New York, NY: The Guilford Press.
>
>Eagerly awaiting feedback.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Mary Tatum Chappell, Psy. D.
>

         David Andrews and long white cane Harry.
E-Mail:  dandrews at visi.com or david.andrews at nfbnet.org





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