<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Depending on your comfort level, consider using the built-in
AI features that come with JAWS. I run events for our affiliate and recently
had to use Picture Smart to review a complex hotel invoice. To my surprise, it actually
worked really well, but of course, I’m not going to compare a hotel statement
to a set of personal financial documents.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Joe </p></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM Lewis Wood via NFBCS <<a href="mailto:nfbcs@nfbnet.org">nfbcs@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg6521335867328459379"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_6521335867328459379WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">I read my bank statements, utility bills, and medical reports via JAWS OCR to Word<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">It seems to get most to the closest on the format. Still not 100%, but usually acceptable.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">I was wondering how those wearing Meta Glasses fare with viewing pdf documents on the screen?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Lewis Wood<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>From:</span></b><span> NFBCS <<a href="mailto:nfbcs-bounces@nfbnet.org" target="_blank">nfbcs-bounces@nfbnet.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tracy Carcione via NFBCS<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 10, 2025 8:16 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List' <<a href="mailto:nfbcs@nfbnet.org" target="_blank">nfbcs@nfbnet.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:carcione@access.net" target="_blank">carcione@access.net</a>; 'New Jersey Technology Division List' <<a href="mailto:njtechdiv@nfbnet.org" target="_blank">njtechdiv@nfbnet.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [NFBCS] Reading complex PDFs, like investment statements<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Financial plans are even worse than statements—completely incomprehensible.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I am using the latest version of Jaws, and Adobe.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I would welcome advice on how to read complex PDFs like this, so I can feel less like a mushroom.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Tracy<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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