[nabs-l] Converting PDF to DOCX

Nicole B. Torcolini at Home ntorcolini at wavecable.com
Fri Nov 19 03:08:41 UTC 2010


If printing and scanning or running it through the virtual printer do not 
work because it is hand writing, then I am afraid that the only option that 
will give accurate results is to have someone sighted retype it for you.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Justin Young" <jty727 at gmail.com>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
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Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Converting PDF to DOCX


> Yes I have Kurzweil, but the problem is as soon as I try to scan some
> of the pages which have hand written things it doesn't work.  When I
> open the PDF file it says "alert empty document"  I tried the saving
> as txt, but that doesn't read the document.  I open it and it just
> says notepad.
>
> On 11/18/10, Nicole B. Torcolini at Home <ntorcolini at wavecable.com> wrote:
>> Do you have Kurzweil?
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Justin Young" <jty727 at gmail.com>
>> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
>> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 6:24 PM
>> Subject: [nabs-l] Converting PDF to DOCX
>>
>>
>>> Hi All!
>>> Lately I've been having trouble with JAWS not reading the pdf files so
>>> I have to print them off and rescan them into the computer so I can
>>> read them.  Any help is greatly appreciated
>>>
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