[nabs-l] Converting inaccessible PDF's
Nick Cocchiarella
tubacooch at gmail.com
Sat Jun 15 05:23:06 UTC 2013
I may have a suggestion for the braille keyword files, although
it might screw with the format a little bit. You could,
theoretically, change their extentions to .brf and open them in
Kurzweil or Open Book. I haven't tried this, but I have opened a
few text keyword documents on my computer, and aside from
completely destroying the format and adding a few extra letters
and symbols to the beginning of the document, it was perfectly
readable in word. I suspect the other way would yield the same
results, but it might not be a horrible idea to back the files
up, just in case my suggestion has the unfortunate habit of
damaging them beyond repair. Hope that helps.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net
To: <dburke at cocenter.org>,"National Association of Blind Students
mailing list" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:00:46 -0400
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Converting inaccessible PDF's
I have old braille n speak files which I'd like to conver too.
Dan, does the same technique of converting brf files apply to
openbook too?
I have that but not kurzweil at home although I have access to
kurzweil at
my community college.
Thanks.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Burke
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 12:54 PM
To: 'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Converting inaccessible PDF's
Ariel,
I don't know about the Key Word files, as I haven't ever used
that format.
However, it may be that what I share about the Braille Lite 2000
may apply.
First, if you're in Windows, you may have to change the view
settings to
show the file extensions.
I assume that your Braille Lite files were written in contracted
Braille.
If they have a .BRF extension or a .BRL extension, they can be
converted
with Kurzweil 1000 or possibly Open Book. You could also send
the .BRF
files to robo Braille I believe, and have them converted to text
or Word.
I'm not as sure as with the .BRL extension files.
However, .BRL extensions can simply be changed to .BRF and
they'll work.
Also, if they don't have any extension at all, just add the .BRF.
One problem I noticed when converting in Kurzweil is that the
line breaks
don't carry over. This means you might lose paragraph breaks
HTH
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
Arielle
Silverman
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 6:50 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Converting inaccessible PDF's
Hi guys,
I have a slightly related question. Is there any software or
Web-based
service that will convert a Keyword Braille file (one generated
on a
Braille Note) to text or Word format? I don't have a Braille Note
anymore, but have some old journals and other files I created on
a
Braille Note that I'd like to read, but can't because they're in
contracted Braille (Keyword Braille). For that matter, any way to
convert old files created on a Braille Lite 2000?
Thanks,
Arielle
On 6/13/13, justin williams <justin.williams2 at gmail.com> wrote:
I'm using jaws 14, but from what I can see, even if you use the
ocr in
jaws,
you can only read it; you can't manipulate it in any way.
-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
Bridget
Walker
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 4:30 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Converting inaccessible PDF's
The OCR in Openbook which is now built in to jaws 13 is all you
need to
read
a PDF.
All this means is when you select the program to open I. You
would pick
Openbook but you do not have to do that anymore because of jaws
13.
I do not remember how I put Openbook as an option in the
programs list
because it is not a default.
If you would like more information on features for this software
I copied
a
link.
I am sorry I do not recall all of the detailed.
What version of jaws are you using? If it is jaws 12 or higher
you have
built in OCR and do not need any of this.
Open a PDF, let it load and use your Jaws reading keys.
I am sorry I did not ask the jaws version question befor because
that
could
save a lot of work.
Best
Sent from my iPad
On Jun 13, 2013, at 2:35 PM, "justin williams"
<justin.williams2 at gmail.com
wrote:
How is it doen with open book?
-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
Bridget
Walker
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 2:08 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Converting inaccessible PDF's
Hi,
Open-book is pretty good or other scanning software with built
in OCR.
Or download Zella PDF but that only converts to txt.
Are you using a PDF reader? Are you using Adobe?
If I recall Adobe versions nine and up is compatible with jaws
12 and
up because of the added jaws OCR feature
I hope this helps,
Sent from my iPad
On Jun 13, 2013, at 11:38 AM, Kayla Weathers
<brailleprincess at gmail.com
wrote:
Hi, can anyone recommend software that will convert inaccessible
pdf's to word format that is accessible with JAWS?
Thanks, Kayla
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