[nabs-l] Reading PDF Documents with JAWS

[Justin Young]

Thanks all.  I have tried this various avenues which haven't worked.
I have the program mentioned and when it opened it said blank
document.  I agree that PDFs aren't fun.

Oh well.

Thanks again!
Justin

On 9/18/11, Nicole B. Torcolini at Home <ntorcolini at wavecable.com> wrote:
> Okay, for clarification, if a PDF is not accessible, it is not accessible.
> There are only certain types of PDF's that you can have JAWS read or save as
> text or copy and paste. If it is accessible but protected, then you can read
> it with JAWS, but you cannot copy and paste it. If it is one of those PDF's
> that is a graphic of text, then there is no saving it as text or copying and
> pasting it.
>
> Nicole
>
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>> Hello Justin,
>>
>> Have you tried selecting the entire document and then doing a
>> copy and paste into ms word? Or also saving the pdf document as a
>> txt document and, then opening it in notepad or in ms word? I
>> have used these techniques that have worked unless the pdf
>> document is tagged... take care and good luck!
>>
>>
>> Hugs,
>> amy
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org
>> [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Justin Young
>> Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2011 12:34 PM
>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>> Subject: [nabs-l] Reading PDF Documents with JAWS
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Hope you are doing well.  I have a question for you.  In my
>> experience
>> with pdf files it seems like JAWS is selective in which it wishes
>> to
>> read and those it wishes not to read.  Have any others
>> experienced
>> this?  How do we get the ones that don't want to be read to do
>> so?  I
>> must admit I don't know much about PDFs.
>>
>> Any suggestions, ideas, comments are appreciated.
>>
>> Justin
>>
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