[nfb-db] PDF and JAWS

Scott Davert scottdavert at gmail.com
Sun Aug 18 16:47:36 UTC 2013


Hi Anna.
I totally forgot about convenience OCR. I suppose that stems from using NVDA and System Access at home, and only using JAWS at work. Thank you for bringing that up. I'll have to try it at work, it sounds like it could be more effective than any of the things I've been doing in the past.

Scott

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On Aug 18, 2013, at 11:41 AM, "M Lucca" <lucca.marisa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Anna, Denise, and Scott,
> 
> Thank you for your help. The OCR optical function worked flawlessly. Thanks
> again!
> 
> Marisa
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-db [mailto:nfb-db-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Anna Trotman
> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 9:04 AM
> To: nfb-db at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [nfb-db] PDF and JAWS
> 
> Use Convenient OCR Optical Character Recognition) for PDF files that JAWS
> says are epty. Convenient OCR is available in JAWS 13 and higher. The
> keystrokes are Insert plus spacebar and then immediately push the letters O
> and W to turn Convenient OCR on and then use your arrow keys to move up or
> down in the screen and JAWS will read it. I hope this helps.
> Anna Trotman
> 
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