[nobe-l] NOBE-L Digest, Vol 141, Issue 6

Tue Feb 9 13:43:52 UTC 2016

You will need to run them through an optical character recognition program. There are two different things that come up as PDF files. One has text in it, the other has a picture of text which screenreaders do not read. It probably would not surprise those on this list that I have worked at a school for the blind for a dozen years, and still bet pictures of PdF files. 

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   1. Converting PDFs (Lara Sowell)
   2. Re: Converting PDFs (Greg Aikens)
   3. Re: Converting PDFs (Szostak, Christine)
   4. Re: Converting PDFs (Kelsey Nicolay)
   5. Re: Converting PDFs (Allen, Timothy (allentw))

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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 15:17:39 -0600
From: Lara Sowell <lara at sowellpodiatry.com>
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Subject: [nobe-l] Converting PDFs
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Hello again,

Last week I was able to obtain the PDFs of the curriculum from which I teach. I know they need to be converted to either txt or doc files in order to read them from a braille display. I purchased PDF Suite 2015 in order to convert them but most of them remained in their picture format. In fact I only found one page which was converted to text. 
Does anyone know how to convert a PDF to text?

Valete,
Sent from my iPhone
Lara Sowell
Latin teacher

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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:28:02 -0500
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You will need to use optical character recognition (OCR) software if the pdf's appear as images. This is disappointing since you got the files directly from the publisher though. You can use something like Kurzweil, Openbook, Abby Fine Reader, or the full version of Adobe Acrobat is supposed to have an OCR feature now. Do you have access to any of those programs?

On 2/8/16, Lara Sowell via NOBE-L <nobe-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> Last week I was able to obtain the PDFs of the curriculum from which I 
> teach. I know they need to be converted to either txt or doc files in 
> order to read them from a braille display. I purchased PDF Suite 2015 
> in order to convert them but most of them remained in their picture 
> format. In fact I only found one page which was converted to text.
> Does anyone know how to convert a PDF to text?
>
> Valete,
> Sent from my iPhone
> Lara Sowell
> Latin teacher
>
>
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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 21:30:54 +0000
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Hi,
  If you have access to JAWS, I think it started with version 12 or 15, you can run the OCR converter and it will convert it  to a readable format. Then just copy the output into a txt or similar file.

  To do this:

1)  Open the .pdf file.
2)  While in the file press insert with space.
3) Press  o to bring up the OCR converter.
4)  Press d to convert the file. It will take a few minutes.

  Once  the file has partially been converted, a window will pop up that will contain all that has been converted. At the  bottom of the window, if it is still converting, it will say something like conversion in progress, or something to that extent.

  Once finished, just hit  copy, open up  notepad or other app that can save as .txt, hit paste, and then just save wherever you like. Hope that helps!
Have a wonderful week all!
Chris

Dr. Christine M. Szostak
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Department of Social Sciences
Shorter University
Rome, Georgia
szostak.1 at osu.edu
cszostak at shorter.edu

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Subject: [nobe-l] Converting PDFs

Hello again,

Last week I was able to obtain the PDFs of the curriculum from which I teach. I know they need to be converted to either txt or doc files in order to read them from a braille display. I purchased PDF Suite 2015 in order to convert them but most of them remained in their picture format. In fact I only found one page which was converted to text. 
Does anyone know how to convert a PDF to text?

Valete,
Sent from my iPhone
Lara Sowell
Latin teacher

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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:25:36 -0500
From: Kelsey Nicolay <kelseynicolay1989 at gmail.com>
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Hi Lara,
If you use JAWS, you might be able to use its ocr feature to read the text, but it is not always reliable.

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 01:39:29 +0000
From: "Allen, Timothy (allentw)" <allentw at ucmail.uc.edu>
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Hi Lara,

I use ABBYY Finereader nearly every day to convert PDFs to JAWS accessible word documents. It's pretty reliable, and not too expensive. Your employer should pay for it, I would think.

Good luck,
Tim 
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Hello again,

Last week I was able to obtain the PDFs of the curriculum from which I teach. I know they need to be converted to either txt or doc files in order to read them from a braille display. I purchased PDF Suite 2015 in order to convert them but most of them remained in their picture format. In fact I only found one page which was converted to text.
Does anyone know how to convert a PDF to text?

Valete,
Sent from my iPhone
Lara Sowell
Latin teacher

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