[nabs-l] Textbook Help

[V Nork]

Here is a quick fix I tried once for a PDf file, it was a small file, and I 
am not sure it  would work with a book  made up of a laarger file or files. 
Perhaps if you were able to break the book PDF file up in sections it would 
work.  Here is what I did with a small file that was in PDF, a scholarship 
handout of about fifteen pages in PDF.  I just opened the PDF file, selected 
all, and then copied and pasted the whole file into a blank word document. 
A bit unorthodox perhaps, but it worked well, and I could read the file 
easily since it was  converted into a  word document.  Hope this helps, 
Ginnie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rachel Becker" <Rachel at BeckerConsultants.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 6:20 AM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Textbook Help


> If you have Kurzweil or something like it, you can use it to open the PDF
> file and it works pretty well.
> Good luck to you and everyone with the new school year.
> Rachel
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Cumbiambera2005
> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 2:57 PM
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> Subject: [nabs-l] Textbook Help
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>
> hello nabsters,
> I am needing some help. This year, one of my "accessible" textbooks is
> going to be in PDF format. Does anyone know of an accessible program
> that I might be able to get a hold of that will convert this to a text
> file, preferrably something that is not going to cost me? I am not
> sure how well Adobe works with jaws, but from my past experience with
> it, I haven't found it very helpful. Does anyone know how this might
> work? Obviously I will need access to my textbook, so any help would
> be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
> Ashley
>
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