[NABS-L] Pdf articles as an image

[Mausam Mehta]

Hi Shikha,
All of the recommendations given so far are great. I might also suggest the Kurzweil scanning software. It's a pretty penny, but it does a thorough job scanning and extracting text from PDF documents. You may be able to justify its purchase through your rehab agency.
Beste,


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> On Aug 20, 2018, at 1:03 PM, Cricket X. Bidleman via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Excellent question... The quickest way to get those in a legible
> format is to zap them through an optical character recognition
> software. If you use JAWS, there's a built-in feature. You can press
> your JAWS key with the space bar simultaneously. On most laptops
> that'll be either caps lock or insert. Follow this by pressing O for
> OCR. If you want something that's perhaps a little more reliable, I
> would recommend a program that's external of a screen reader. I use
> OpenBook on my laptop, and that works really well. Of you can use a
> variety of apps from the app store. I use KNFB reader on both my
> notetaker and my phone. That's my recommendation. Hope this helps!
> 
> Best,
> Cricket X. Bidleman (she/her/hers)
> Stanford University | Class of 2021
> 
>> On 8/20/18, Shikha via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I have pdf articles as an image every week for one of my classes. What is
>> the quickest way to read them.
>> The disability office is being super slow to convert them in to a word
>> document.
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Shikha Desai
>> Bachelor of Social Work
>> Georgia State University
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