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

[Chris Nusbaum]

Mikayla,

Since RoboBraille is an email-based service, the converted file will be able to be read with any screen reader, just as you would any other email attachment.

Chris Nusbaum, Secretary
Maryland Association of Blind Students

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jan 12, 2014, at 4:33 PM, Mikayla Gephart <mikgephart at icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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