[nfbcs] Rebo Braille was RE: "empty" pdf

Mikayla Gephart mikgephart at icloud.com
Sun Jan 12 21:33:38 UTC 2014


Chris,
	With scanned documents, does this work good with VoiceOver. I might need to use this. 

Sent from my iPad

On Jan 12, 2014, at 4:29 PM, Nicole Torcolini <ntorcolini at wavecable.com> wrote:

> How do you get a Word document? I wrote (Word (.doc) in the subject line,
> but they sent me a .txt file. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Chris Nusbaum
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 11:06 AM
> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] "empty" pdf
> 
> It's actually robobraille.org, and it is indeed a great service. Just send
> the PDF file as an attachment in an email to convert at robobraille.org. In the
> subject line type the file format to which you want the file converted, e.g.
> DOC or RTF. Within a few minutes you should receive an email from
> RoboBraille with the converted file attached. This works with scanned image
> PDF's as well as plain text files.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Chris Nusbaum, Secretary
> Maryland Association of Blind Students
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Jan 10, 2014, at 11:04 AM, "I. C. Bray" <i.c.bray at win.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Try robobraille.com
>> 
>> I've never used it, but others say it's wonderful.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
>> To: <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 8:36 AM
>> Subject: [nfbcs] "empty" pdf
>> 
>> 
>> : 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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