[nabs-l] Reading PDF Documents with JAWS

[Chris Nusbaum]

Hi Justin,

You have to use some kind of PDF program, like Adobe Reader or 
Sumantra PDF.  I like Sumantra because you don't have to do 
anything.  It automatically scans the PDF and opens it in a 
readable format.  You then have the option to save it (control s) 
or print it (control p.) I haven't figured out how to save the 
document as a Word or plain text file (the only options it gives 
me are PDF and all files,) so I usually print it, then scan it 
with Kurzweil.  These are the same options my PC gives me when I 
open a file from a thumb drive.  Does anybody know how to convert 
a scanned PDF file to a Word or text format without going through 
some kind of converter program"Hope this helps!

 Chris Nusbaum

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----- Original Message -----
From: Justin Young <jty727 at gmail.com
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 14:34:16 -0400
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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