<html class="apple-mail-supports-explicit-dark-mode"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Hi Tracy:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Are you certain the entire PDF was loaded into memory? This is one of the accessibility settings that you find when you press Control Shift number 5.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Cordially,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Curtis Chong</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Oct 1, 2025, at 4:33\u202fAM, Tracy Carcione via NFBCS <nfbcs@nfbnet.org> wrote:<br><br></div><div dir="ltr">\ufeff<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style>@font-face { font-family: Helvetica; }
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div.WordSection1 { page: WordSection1; }</style><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Hi Curtis. I did Jaws OCR, but it missed several pages. I have no idea why; it usually works pretty well.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Tracy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces@nfbnet.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Curtis Chong via NFBCS<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 30, 2025 8:45 PM<br><b>To:</b> nfbcs@nfbnet.org<br><b>Cc:</b> Curtis Chong <chong.curtis@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [NFBCS] Missing text in OCR of PDF<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><br>On Sep 30, 2025, at 11:44<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">\u202f</span>AM, Tracy Carcione via NFBCS <<a href="mailto:nfbcs@nfbnet.org">nfbcs@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">\ufeff</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Pete, you\u2019ve gone beyond my skills. No surprise there.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I opened the PDF, and it said \u201calert: empty document.\u201d I selected all anyway and copied, then I went to chat GPT and pasted, but all that was there was the little alert message. How would I make the bot do OCR on the image part of the doc?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I don\u2019t have email on my iPhone, so getting the doc to it is not at all easy.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Thanks.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Tracy</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> NFBCS <<a href="mailto:nfbcs-bounces@nfbnet.org">nfbcs-bounces@nfbnet.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Peter Mark via NFBCS<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, September 27, 2025 9:31 AM<br><b>To:</b> NFB in Computer Science Mailing List <<a href="mailto:nfbcs@nfbnet.org">nfbcs@nfbnet.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> Peter Mark <<a href="mailto:usapetermark@gmail.com">usapetermark@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [NFBCS] Missing text in OCR of PDF</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">hey tracy<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">if there is no personal info on it then maybe paste it into chat gpt.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">or email it to an iphone and see if seeing AI can read it.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">pete<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Sep 27, 2025, at 9:23<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">\u202f</span>AM, Tracy Carcione via NFBCS <<a href="mailto:nfbcs@nfbnet.org">nfbcs@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I got a handout for a class I\u2019m taking. It was a PDF which was really just an image, so I had to run Jaws OCR to get anything out of it. The OCR missed a whole section of text, several paragraphs. Is there any way to get that text? I tried running the OCR again, after class when I knew it was missing, but I got the same results. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The text is in Irish Gaelic, so I can\u2019t just have someone read it to me, and I need to see the spelling anyway.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Tracy</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">_______________________________________________<br>NFBCS mailing list<br></span><a href="mailto:NFBCS@nfbnet.org"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">NFBCS@nfbnet.org</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><br></span><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><br>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for NFBCS:<br></span><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/usapetermark%40gmail.com"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/usapetermark%40gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div><p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">_______________________________________________<br>NFBCS mailing list<br><a href="mailto:NFBCS@nfbnet.org">NFBCS@nfbnet.org</a><br><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org</a><br>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for NFBCS:<br><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/chong.curtis%40gmail.comSomehow">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/chong.curtis%40gmail.comSomehow</a>, you need to get the PDF over to Windows. Then you can apply JAWS CONVENIENT OCR.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>NFBCS mailing list</span><br><span>NFBCS@nfbnet.org</span><br><span>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org</span><br><span>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for NFBCS:</span><br><span>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/chong.curtis%40gmail.com</span><br></div></body></html>