[NFBCS] Tricky PDF and JAWS issue

[Nathaniel Schmidt]

Hi,

If possible, perhaps ask the publisher to give you a non-password protected
version of the file.  This is what university academics have done for me so
that I can perform Convenient OCR on document content.  A publisher may or
may not consent to this request.

Regards,

Nathaniel

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Nathaniel Schmidt
Undergraduate student
Bachelor of Computer Science (S306)
School of Information Technology
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment
Deakin University, Cloud campus
https://sync.deakin.edu.au/profiles/student/njschmidt/

Std. ID: 220493627
E: njschmidt at deakin.edu.au
M: 0439591709
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/njsch/
GitHub: https://github.com/njsch/
Skype: nathaniel_schmidt1994

> -----Original Message-----
> From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Jim Portillo via NFBCS
> Sent: Tuesday, 15 September 2020 11:44 AM
> To: Jim Portillo <portillo.jim at gmail.com>
> Cc: Jim Portillo <portillo.jim at gmail.com>
> Subject: [NFBCS] Tricky PDF and JAWS issue
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> 
> 
> I'll attempt to explain my issue.
> 
> I signed up to take a class, and the instructor is suggesting we have a
> specific book and workbook.  I contacted the publisher, and he said that
> although he didn't make the book available to people electronically, he
> would make it available to me provided I agree to some pretty sensible
> logistics.  He has the original files used to print the books, and they
are
> PDFs.
> 
> These files are password protected, so I can view the files but not edit
or
> change them.  I guess there is another password, if I need it, for copying
> or printing.
> 
> I tried reading the file with Adobe Acrobat Reader, but at first, I must
not
> have had some screen reader settings turned on.  I went ahead and set them
> up and tried rereading the book.  Once it was done processing and I tried
> reading it, I just kept hearing "blank" whenever I scrolled down.  I had
an
> AIRA agent look at my screen, and he said there were definitely pages of
> text on my screen, but I guess JAWS wasn't reading them.
> 
> I tried doing a JAWS convenient OCR command, but when I tried putting in
the
> password, it didn't like it.
> 
> I already paid for these files, so I can't very well return or ask for my
> money back.  I'm just wondering if I'm doing something wrong or if there's
> something else I can try to get these two books to read.
> 
> I was also going to try copying and pasting some of the material into a
Word
> file, but I guess I'll need the second password for that.  I didn't think
I
> would.
> 
> Is there perhaps some other setting in Adobe?  I remember having a similar
> problem in the past, but that particular PDF wasn't locked.  I still
> couldn't get it to read; although, I was able to get JAWS OCR to read most
> of it.
> 
> If anyone has any ideas, I'd appreciate them.
> 
> Thanks much.
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> 
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