[nabs-l] Reading PDF Documents with JAWS

Wed Sep 21 02:27:32 UTC 2011

There are two different ways.
1. From in Kurzweil, use the oopen file option on the file menu.
2. In windows explorer, highlight the PDF file and either use the open with 
option on the file menu or press the applications key to get the context 
menu and select open with from there. In the open with dialog, select 
Kurzweil.

Nicole

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From: "Chris Nusbaum" <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com>
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> How do you do that?
>
> Chris Nusbaum
>
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> From: "Anjelina" <anjelinac26 at gmail.com
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> Date sent: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:29:11 -0400
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Reading PDF Documents with JAWS
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> Chris,
> You can open the file directly using Kurzweil, and it should automatically
> convert the file.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Nusbaum
> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 4:04 PM
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> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Reading PDF Documents with JAWS
>
> Hi Marsha,
>
> Don't you have to print the PDF out and scan it before you open
> it in Kurzweil?
>
> Chris
>
> Chris Nusbaum
>
> "The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight.  The
> real problem is the misunderstanding and lack of education that
> exists.  If a blind person has the proper training and
> opportunity, blindness can be reduced to a mere physical
> nuisance." -- Kenneth Jernigan (President of the National
> Federation of the Blind, 1968-1986.)
>
>  Visit the I C.A.N.  Foundation online at:
> www.icanfoundation.info for
> information on our foundation and how it helps blind and visually
> impaired children in MD say "I can!"
>
>
> 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
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> [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
>
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