[nabs-l] How To Handle Inaccessible PDFS?

[Aleeha Dudley]

Hello,
     I'm going to try and tackle your questions, but if none of this
makes sense, feel free to email me with questions.
First: as to what you can do with the PDF, Kurzweil, OpenBook, or
Abbbyy FineReader, you will be able to convert the document on your
own. You can also try, if you have a scanner, printing and scanning
the document into your computer, if it doesn't scan into jpeg or Tiff
images, that is.
     As for what to tell your professor, I find the best rule of thumb
to use is this. If you can't highlight a small portion of text in the
document without highlighting the whole document, it is an image and
needs to be converted. Most documents originate electronically. So, if
your professor can find the original file, tthat will definitely help.
Image PDF's are an unfortunate occurrence in the academic environment
and the best thing for us to do is to educate people constantly about
the barriers that these documents present.
Hope this helps,
Aleeha

On 2/19/14, Elif Emir <filerime at gmail.com> wrote:
> send it to me.
> I have abbyy finereader
> I can convert it for you
> it won't be perfect but basicly it will be readable.
>
> 2014-02-19 20:15 GMT-05:00, Kerri Kosten <kerrik2006 at gmail.com>:
>> Hi Everyone:
>>
>> For our response posts in my online Communications class, we have to
>> read an excerpt that is in PDF format. That is usually fine, except
>> this time when I clicked on the PDF JAWS said "document is empty." I
>> know this means the PDF was scanned and OCR was not used.
>> First, is there anything I can do on my own to be able to read this PDF?
>> Next, how do I explain to the professor in simple terms that the pdf
>> was scanned with no OCR and so it is an image? How can the professor
>> make this pdf accessible so I can read it?
>> What do you all do about inaccessible PDFs?
>> Thanks,
>> Kerri
>>
>> Just now
>>
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