[nfbcs] PDF with words run together

[Dr. Denise M Robinson]

Tracy, attach it and lets us take a look to see if we can get something
better

* Dr Denise M Robinson*

*Denise M Robinson, TVI, PhD*

Specialist-Technology/Blind Skills | Teacher of the Blind and Visually
Impaired
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On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 9:27 AM Tracy Carcione via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> Thanks Doug.  The option Left-to-right, top-to-bottom worked better.
> There are still some words run together, but a lot less.
> I also tried Nancy's idea of opening it with Word, but there must be a lot
> of images or something--Word wouldn't read much.
> Thanks to both of you.  NFBCS comes through again!
> Tracy
>
> > 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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