[nfbcs] PDF with words run together

[Nancy Coffman]

If you have word, you might try saving the PDF document, right clicking on it, choosing open with and then choosing Microsoft Word. The document was probably created in word, and it might make better sense of it.

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> On Feb 11, 2019, at 7:39 AM, Doug Lee via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I would call the following answer something between an explanation and an educated guess.
> 
> I believe that when a PDF document is not "tagged," which means marked up for assistive technology, it is difficult for programs to figure out things like where a word starts and ends, what is a heading versus a paragraph
> versus a table, etc. Sometimes, the guesswork programs use in such a case can be wrong. In print nowadays, the size of a character, and even the width of a space between words, can vary.
> 
> You might try changing the reading order, which should be an option you see when Acrobat launches. "Infer reading order from document" is usually the default, but there are two alternatives.
> 
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 08:24:52AM -0500, NFBCS mailing list wrote:
> Why do many PDF docs run words together, and is there anything I can do
> about it once I've received such a document?
> Here is an example from the doc I got for an upcoming class:
> Stepinto theworldofanalyticswitha thoroughintroductionto ...
> 
> It's comprehensible, especially with the help of a braille display, but it
> takes some effort.
> Tracy
> 
> 
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