[nfbcs] "empty" pdf

[Rasmussen, Lloyd]

If Insert-Z works with PDF files, you may be able to do this.  My experience with Window-Eyes (not doing OCR but pasting formatted text from a PDF into Word) showed that I needed to do Select All, Copy, Paste for each page individually.

In Word 2003 you print your PDF to the Microsoft Office Document Image Writer, which has an option to save to a file.  Then you use Microsoft Document Imaging to recognize the text.  I didn't find it to do a very good job.

My favorite way to deal with image-only PDF's at home is to use Omnipage, which is now at version 19.  It puts some PDF-processing options on the context menu for PDF files in Windows Explorer.  It is sometimes even useful on PDF's that have text, but it can also put a lot of I's or L's into your file as well.

Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress   202-707-0535
http://www.loc.gov/nls
The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of Congress, NLS.



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From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Dr. Denise M Robinson
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 8:40 AM
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Subject: Re: [nfbcs] "empty" pdf

Yes, turn off jaws, do a ctrl a to select all, ctrl c to copy, alt tab to word and paste with ctrl v then hit the ctrl key and let go which takes you into paste options then hit t to keep text only which essentially turns that image into text---then turn jaws back on and read

Denise


On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net> wrote:

> I've received a pdf attachment with a file length of 35 KB, but when I 
> open it Adobe says it's an empty document.
> If I were at home, I'd feed it through Kurzweil, but I don't have 
> Kurzweil  on this PC.
> I tried Jaws convenient OCR, but it wouldn't start.
> Are there other ways to get at the data in this doc?
> Thanks.
> Tracy
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