[nabs-l] Reading PDF Documents with JAWS

[David Andrews]

No, Kurzweil and open book will accept image PDF's directly, and do 
OCR on them.


Dave

At 03:04 PM 9/19/2011, you wrote:
>Hi Marsha,
>
>Don't you have to print the PDF out and scan it before you open it 
>in Kurzweil?
>
>Chris
>
>Chris Nusbaum
>
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>Jernigan (President of the National Federation of the Blind, 1968-1986.)
>
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>Sent from my BrailleNote
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Marsha Drenth" <marsha.drenth at gmail.com
>To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:12:45 -0400
>Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Reading PDF Documents with JAWS
>
>You could go at this in several different ways.  If you have a PDF, you can
>always extract the text, into a Text file.  You could also open a PDF into
>Kurzweil.  If it's a picture you can open it in Kurzweil and see what you
>get.  PDF's are the most by far frustrating thing ever.
>
>Marsha
>-----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 2:34 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