[nabs-l] Reading PDF Documents with JAWS

Thu Sep 22 20:27:19 UTC 2011

Hi Rania and everyone,

I talked to a friend of mine and figured it out.  All you have to 
do is open Kurzweil, go to your My Documents folder or whatever 
folder you have the PDF in, hit Enter and it should start doing 
OCR on it.  It might take a few minutes, but it will finally come 
up and read just like a scanned print document.

 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: 
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 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Rania Ismail CMT" <raniaismail04 at gmail.com
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Date sent: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:19:25 -0400
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Reading PDF Documents with JAWS

Chris, thanks for asking that question! I have had to use it once 
for a pdf
so I forget how to do it!

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Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 5:31 PM
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Hi Dave and everyone,

How do you open and do OCR on a PDF in Kurzweil?

 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!"

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 ----- Original Message -----
From: David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com
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Date sent: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:34:47 -0500
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Reading PDF Documents with JAWS

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

"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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Of Justin Young
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2011 2:34 PM
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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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