[nfbcs] "empty" pdf

[Nicole Torcolini at Home]

I don't think that that works in this case. 

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On Jan 10, 2014, at 7:34 AM, "Dr. Denise M Robinson" <deniserob at gmail.com> wrote:

Another is go to file menu and save as text...in PDF


On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net>wrote:

> Thanks for all the ideas.  For this particular doc, since it was just an
> example of something, I called the user and had him explain it.  However,
> this "empty" document problem has cropped up a lot lately, so I'm saving
> all your suggestions for next time.
> Tracy
> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Dr. Denise M
>> Robinson