[il-talk] JPEG files

[David Andrews]

Actually this is not quite true.  Recent versions of JAWS have 
limited OcR built in, and programs like kurzweil and open book will 
scan a JPG file and extract any text.

Dave

At 05:45 AM 8/5/2013, you wrote:
>No because I believe it comes through as a picture.
>I think people scan documents that way, but it won't work with JAWS. Pdf or
>Word or something would work for you, as I'm sure you know.
>Good luck.
>Sharon
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: il-talk [mailto:il-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Webb
>Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 12:00 AM
>To: 'NFB of Illinois Mailing List'
>Subject: [il-talk] JPEG files
>
>Can anyone tell me if a .jpg file can be read via JAWS?  I've received a
>document as an attachment to an email, and I believe the attachment to be
>just a text document, but because it is in .jpg I have been unable to read
>it.  Would like to convert the thing to pdf, but I'm not sure if this is
>possible.
>
>
>
>All suggestions welcome.  Thanks,
>
>Andrew