[nabs-l] Converting PDF to DOCX

[Brice Smith]

The "empty document" means there is no text, just an image. You will
need to use an OCR program to try and recognize text. Hand written
text will not scan or be readable with Jaws.

Brice
On 11/18/10, Justin Young <jty727 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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>
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>> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 6:24 PM
>> Subject: [nabs-l] Converting PDF to DOCX
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>>
>>> 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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