[nabs-l] books in pdf

[Arielle Silverman]

Hi all,
If you have Gmail, I would highly recommend emailing the PDF to
yourself as an attachment, then clicking "view attachment as HTML".
The HTML version of a PDF reads just like a website with no links, and
you can use Control-F to search for specific words, phrases or page
numbers. I do this for almost all PDF documents I read, and in fact,
if you don't have Gmail I would suggest getting it for just that
purpose. You can save the PDF to text as others have suggested, but I
find searching isn't as easy or quick in a text document.
Also, remember that if you scan your own books and don't have OCR
software, you can email your scanned file to
convert at robobraille.org
Put "doc" in the subject line and you will get a Word copy of your
document returned to you within five minutes. I am still playing
around with RoboBraille but so far have found it to be really amazing.
I was able to use it to convert one of my patient forms for a new
doctor, which I found online in PDF format, into a Word doc that was
formatted well enough for me to independently fill out the form and
bring it to my doctor's office. It's impossible to do that with PDF
versions of forms or scanned forms, but RoboBraille will make it
happen at least with some forms.
Best,
Arielle

On 1/17/12, Nicole B. Torcolini at Home <ntorcolini at wavecable.com> wrote:
> If it is an accessible PDF, yes. Press JAWS key, control, f and then type in
> your search term. However, as I believe I said before, you may be better off
> just saving it as a text document and then a word document. Most PDF's that
> JAWS can read can be saved as text as long as they have not been protected.
> JAWS can be very slow when working with PDF's, and you usually have to have
> it reprocess it every time that you open the file. Finally, I do not know if
> there is a way to mark your place in a PDF file using JAWS, but you can do
> this in a Microsoft Word document with the latest version of JAWS.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 3:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] books in pdf
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>
>>I got mine in pdf too, unfortunately; can jaws search in a pdf file?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Loren Wakefield
>> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 10:43 PM
>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>> Subject: [nabs-l] books in pdf
>>
>> I recently received most of my textbooks in pdf.  Can someone tell me a
>> few tips on moving around in a pdf-type document?  How does one find
>> particular pages, sections, etc?  Can you have the document open where you
>>
>> left off? Is there a more efficient way to go from page to page than
>> control-page down and hitting page up to go to the top of the page?  Some
>> basic tips would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
>>
>> Loren
>>
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