[nfb-db] PDF Documents and JAWS

[Dr. Denise M Robinson]

This trick typically works, turn off jaws, ctle a to select all, ctle c to
copy and paste into word with ctrl v...turn jaws back on
or you can send it thru openbook or kurzweil


On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 2:43 PM, M Lucca <lucca.marisa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Fellow NFB-DB Members,****
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> I received a few PDF documents I need to read, but JAWS tells me the
> documents are empty. The documents have text within their pages, and if one
> clicks on a page, the whole page is selected. JAWS usually reads PDF
> documents seamlessly, and I don’t know why the software cannot read the
> text. I need to contact the sender to retrieve accessible versions of the
> documents, of course, but I was wondering if anyone could explain why JAWS
> informs me the documents are empty. Also, how can one correct the PDF
> documents to make them accessible to JAWS? ****
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> Thank you!****
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>
> Marisa****
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