[nfbcs] [nabs] PDF problem

Tracy Carcione carcione at access.net
Thu Feb 21 15:12:02 UTC 2013


Thanks to everyone.  I opened the file in K1000, and it only had a line of 
garbage, so I guess that's what's really there.  I had never used K1000 on a 
pdf doc before, so that was interesting.
Tracy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hyde, David W. (ESC)" <david.hyde at wcbvi.k12.wi.us>
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Subject: Re: [nfbcs] [nabs] PDF problem


>I generally save the document, then open it in Kurzweil directly. At one 
>time, MS Word had a built in OCR engine, but I don't think that is part of 
>the current edition.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Sahar Husseini
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 8:21 AM
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>
> Hey, Tracy, is it a scanned document that needs OCR?  That's usually when
> you would see the message "alert, document is empty."  If you have Open 
> Book
> or Kurzweil, you can use the virtual printer and read it that way.  I know
> Open Book calls it Freedom Import, but I can't remember the one for
> Kurzweil.
>
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
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> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 7:40 AM
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>
>
> I received a PDF document.  In Windows Explorer, I see it has 638 KB. 
> When
> I start Adobe, it says it has 2 pages, but, when Adobe finishes 
> processing,
> it says the document is empty.  I'm very confused. If it's empty, why does
> it have 2 pages?  I think it's an important document I need to see, but 
> I'm
> not getting the data.
> I'm using the latest Jaws, if it matters. I'm not sure which version of
> Adobe I have, though.
> Tracy
>
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