[nabs-l] Converting PDF to DOCX

Nicole B. Torcolini at Home ntorcolini at wavecable.com
Fri Nov 19 03:07:08 UTC 2010


That works if the text is correct. However, I have come across PDF's where 
what the text said and what was actually written were two *very* different 
things.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brice Smith" <brice.smith319 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Converting PDF to DOCX


> You can save pdf files to text under the file menu. If the text is
> just a scanned image however, jaws will read nothing and you will need
> to use a program like omnipage to scan and convert the text. Printing
> is not required.
>
> Brice
> On 11/18/10, Justin Young <jty727 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All!
>> Lately I've been having trouble with JAWS not reading the pdf files so
>> I have to print them off and rescan them into the computer so I can
>> read them.  Any help is greatly appreciated
>>
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