[Promotion-technology] PDF's, Round 2

[Susan Tabor]

Hi, Dave:

Thank you very much! What really bugs me is that all voice functions stop
and I just have to stop and reboot to get any feedback from the machine.
Grrrrrrr!--Cheers, Susan

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From: promotion-technology-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:promotion-technology-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Andrews, David
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Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 9:19 AM
To: Committee on the Promotion, Evaluation and Advancement of Technology
Subject: Re: [Promotion-technology] PDF's, Round 2

It is most likely that these files contain images of the pages, not the
actual text.  The only solution is to do OCR on the pages, which can be less
than perfect.  

Depending on how they produce the PDF's, they may be able to use text
instead of pictures -- but maybe not.

Dave



-----Original Message-----
From: promotion-technology-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:promotion-technology-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Susan Tabor
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 11:03 PM
To: 'Committee on the Promotion, Evaluation and Advancement of Technology'
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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