[nabs-l] Adobie Reader 9

[Steve Jacobson]

In addition to what Dave points out, some OCR packages are able to extract text from such PDF documents directly.  
OmniPage has this ability as does K-1000.  Others do as well but I'm less familiar with how they work.  If you have one of 
these packages, you won't need to physically print and 
scan the document to read it.

If you are a student and these documents are coming from your college or school, you should mention this problem.  The 
"empty document" problem comes from how the PDF's were originally created.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:52:32 -0500, David Andrews wrote:

>The most common cause of this is that the document contains an image 
>of a printed page, not the text itself.  There are no settings that 
>you can change that will help this.  All you can do is perform OCR 
>optical character recognition on the file itself, or on a printout of the file.

>Dave

>At 04:39 PM 6/11/2009, you wrote:
>>Hi I have a pdf file I need to open but I wanted to know if there is 
>>a way to change the settings. Are there certain settings it should 
>>be set to? After it opens the document it then tells me the document 
>>is empty. Can someone please help me out asap?
>>Thanks.
>>Rania,
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