[nfbcs] "empty" pdf

[David Andrews]

Yes, sometimes if you change the reading order to tabbed order, it fixes that.

Dave

At 10:16 PM 1/14/2014, you wrote:
>The other problem I have had come up with PDF files is that many 
>times they are rendered without spaces between the words. Has anyone 
>found a fix for that?
>
>Nancy Coffman
>Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jan 13, 2014, at 9:01 AM, "Gary Wunder" <gwunder at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > K1000 at work would be a good idea and would not violate their 
> very generous
> > user policy.
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione
> > Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 9:21 AM
> > To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [nfbcs] "empty" pdf
> >
> > 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
> >> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 8:40 AM
> >> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
> >> 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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> >>
> >>
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> >>
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> >>
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