[nabs-l] Converting PDF to DOCX

[Nicole B. Torcolini at Home]

Just for clarification, I was not talking about scanned text. I was talking 
about when you either save the PDF as text using the option on the file menu 
or copy and paste the text from the PDF directly.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brice Smith" <brice.smith319 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Converting PDF to DOCX


> 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.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Brice Smith" <brice.smith319 at gmail.com>
>> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
>> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>> 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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