[NFBCS] Reading complex PDFs, like investment statements

[Lewis Wood]

I read my bank  statements, utility bills, and medical reports via JAWS OCR
to Word

 

It seems to get most to the closest on the format.  Still not 100%, but
usually acceptable.

 

I was wondering how those wearing Meta Glasses fare with viewing pdf
documents on the screen?

 

Lewis Wood

 

From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione via NFBCS
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Subject: [NFBCS] Reading complex PDFs, like investment statements

 

I have some IRA accounts, as well as other investments.  I find it
impossible to read the PDFs that are supposed to show me how my investments
are performing.  They have many columns, often broken up by other text, so I
can't figure out what numbers belong to which columns.  Sometimes there is 1
header or number on each line, and sometimes there are many numbers on one
line.

Financial plans are even worse than statements-completely incomprehensible.

I am using the latest version of Jaws, and Adobe.

I would welcome advice on how to read complex PDFs like this, so I can feel
less like a mushroom.

Tracy

 

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