[nfbcs] PDF with words run together

Tue Feb 12 00:51:09 UTC 2019

Nicole,

It is possible to open a PDF document with the recent versions of Word, but
I have not had the positive results others have had doing that.  In one
case, none of the periods were brought into the Word document, for example.
Sometimes, it works well, so it is an option to keep in mind.  I am not sure
which versions of Word and/or Windows support this, though, so I know that
there are situations when this doesn't work.  

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

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Subject: Re: [nfbcs] PDF with words run together

	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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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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