[blindlaw] Question

[Angie Matney]

Hi Chuck,

Good points about educating others as to which formats work best. One thing,
though: You shouldn't need to actually print the document to run OCR on it.
Does Kurzweil have a setting to let you open certain types of files? I use
my OCR software of choice (Abbyy Finereader) to access pdf's that do not
have imbedded text. I don't have to print the file; I just run  it through
the software. Saves a few trees (grin).

Angie





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From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
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Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 3:03 AM
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Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Question

The only you can get a scanned document to read is to print it out and 
rescan it using OCR software such as Kurzweil. I spend time educating my 
clients however as to the format that I need documents in. As many of my 
clients are nonprofits or public entities that serve various groups I spend 
some time educating and acquainting them with web accessibility standards 
and encourage them to use them when they design content.\
Chuck
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> How can you get a scanned document to read.  This seems to be happening 
> more and more.  I think folks are using copy-printers to scan and send 
> things like newsletters.  This is frustrating, don't you think?
>
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>> This happens when the document contains a graphic, not actual
>> text.  Usually this happens because someone scans a document, then
>> makes that image file into a PDF.  You can OCR it, .
>> At 09:45 PM 5/27/2009, you wrote:
>>>Every time I try to open this PDF, it says, "Ellert: empty
>>>document." I tryed converting it to text, but It won't work. Is
>>>their some thing wrong with the document? Please email me off list,
>>>at: rjs59 at hotmail.com Thanks, RJ
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