[Promotion-technology] PDF's, Round 2

[Brett Boyer]

Hi. Omnipage also works well for this, and is a bit cheaper. Good luck.
bb

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Wunder" <gwunder at earthlink.net>
To: "Committee on the Promotion, Evaluation and Advancement of Technology" 
<promotion-technology at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 6:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Promotion-technology] PDF's, Round 2


> Hi Susan. What version of Adobe are you using? What screen reader are you 
> using? It may be that this particular PDF you are trying to read contains 
> only a print image -- a picture of the text rather than typewritten text 
> which can be read from a buffer by your screen reading software. If this 
> is the case, you will need some kind of optical character recognition 
> program such as the Kurzweil 1000 or Freedom Scientific's OpenBook in 
> order to look at those images and convert them to letters that you can 
> read.
>
> If, in my case, using the most current version of Adobe Acrobat reader and 
> JAWS for Windows, when I get a document which only contains images, I get 
> a message which says "alert: document empty." This is a clue that I need 
> to run the PDF file through the Kurzweil 1000.
>
> Gary
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Susan Tabor" <souljourner at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "'Committee on the Promotion, Evaluation and Advancement of 
> Technology'" <promotion-technology at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 11:03 PM
> Subject: [Promotion-technology] PDF's, Round 2
>
>
>> Hi, listers!
>>
>>
>>
>> One of the newspapers I get at work and have to print comes in to PDF 
>> files
>> which are not embedded attachments. They are regular PDF's with about 5mb 
>> in
>> them, and I can usually open that size of PDF OK. But these will look on 
>> the
>> screen to those who read print like they're open but the speech on the
>> computer will be dead and some of the other functionality is gone as 
>> well.
>> This is really irritating! Can someone explain to me what is happening 
>> and
>> tell me if there's anything I can do so that the people emailing the 
>> paper
>> won't have to change how they do it just for me, please? Thanks!--Susan
>>
>>
>>
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