[nabs-l] How To Handle Inaccessible PDFS?

[Kerri Kosten]

Hi Everyone:

Thanks so much for your help.
I ended up using Robobraille. It came back fine and works great!
I would recomend robobraille.org to anyone who has this inaccessible
pdf problem!
Thanks,
Kerri

On 2/19/14, melissa Green <lissa1531 at gmail.com> wrote:
> you can also go to their web site and upload the file and choose the file
> type that you want the document converted.
> thank you arielle for showing me this site.
> It has helped me a lot over the past year or so.
> Oh and they do not do xcell files.
> But they do power point presentations and other image files.
>
> Have a blessed day.
> Best,
> Melissa R Green and PJ
> Some people come into your life just to teach you how to let go.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Arielle Silverman" <arielle71 at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 6:57 PM
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> You can also save the PDF and email it as an attachment to
> convert at robobraille.org
> with the word "doc" (without quotes) in the subject line. RoboBraille
> will return the file to you in Word format. It's free and does a
> remarkable job.
> If the course website won't let you save the PDF to your computer,
> then ask your professor to email it to you as an attachment. You can
> then just forward your prof's email to
> convert at robobraille.org
> Best,
> Arielle
>
> On 2/19/14, Aleeha Dudley <blindcowgirl1993 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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