[nabs-l] Converting PDF to DOCX

[Brice Smith]

Nicole,

I believe you're correct. The quality of an OCR scan depends entirely
on the quality of the original scanned image. Faded, marked, or
otherwise very poor scans will rarely turn into reliable text,
regardless of the OCR program.

Brice
On 11/18/10, Nicole B. Torcolini at Home <ntorcolini at wavecable.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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>> 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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