[nfbcs] PDF with words run together

[Nicole Torcolini]

	You have to save it as Word, not open it with Word, which is only
available if you have Acrobat--the regular Adobe Reader does not have this
option. Normally, this does not help much anyway. I have Adobe Acrobat, so,
if you want, I can try to do something with it later today if you want.

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From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione
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Sent: Monday, February 11, 2019 6:26 AM
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Subject: Re: [nfbcs] PDF with words run together

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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