[nabs-l] Reading PDF Documents with JAWS

Wed Sep 21 02:31:32 UTC 2011

Oh, and you can also open the PDF in the PDF reader, open the print dialog, 
and finally select Kesi virtual printer as the printer.

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From: "Chris Nusbaum" <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com>
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> How do you do that?
>
> Chris Nusbaum
>
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> blind person has the proper training and opportunity, blindness can be 
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> From: "Anjelina" <anjelinac26 at gmail.com
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> Date sent: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:29:11 -0400
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> Chris,
> You can open the file directly using Kurzweil, and it should automatically
> convert the file.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Nusbaum
> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 4:04 PM
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> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Reading PDF Documents with JAWS
>
> Hi Marsha,
>
> Don't you have to print the PDF out and scan it before you open
> it in Kurzweil?
>
> Chris
>
> Chris Nusbaum
>
> "The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight.  The
> real problem is the misunderstanding and lack of education that
> exists.  If a blind person has the proper training and
> opportunity, blindness can be reduced to a mere physical
> nuisance." -- Kenneth Jernigan (President of the National
> Federation of the Blind, 1968-1986.)
>
>  Visit the I C.A.N.  Foundation online at:
> www.icanfoundation.info for
> information on our foundation and how it helps blind and visually
> impaired children in MD say "I can!"
>
>
> Sent from my BrailleNote
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marsha Drenth" <marsha.drenth at gmail.com
> To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'"
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Date sent: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:12:45 -0400
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Reading PDF Documents with JAWS
>
> You could go at this in several different ways.  If you have a
> PDF, you can
> always extract the text, into a Text file.  You could also open a
> PDF into
> Kurzweil.  If it's a picture you can open it in Kurzweil and see
> what you
> get.  PDF's are the most by far frustrating thing ever.
>
> Marsha
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> [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Justin Young
> Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2011 2:34 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: [nabs-l] Reading PDF Documents with JAWS
>
> Hello All,
>
> Hope you are doing well.  I have a question for you.  In my
> experience
> with pdf files it seems like JAWS is selective in which it wishes
> to
> read and those it wishes not to read.  Have any others
> experienced
> this?  How do we get the ones that don't want to be read to do
> so?  I
> must admit I don't know much about PDFs.
>
> Any suggestions, ideas, comments are appreciated.
>
> Justin
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