Re: JAWS and .pdf
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David <davidwhitehead1957@...>
Hello there;
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Yes indeed, kurzweil does allow one to save To other formats.
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From: jfw-bounces@lists.the-jdh.com [mailto:jfw-bounces@lists.the-jdh.com] On Behalf Of Adrian Spratt Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 12:44 PM To: 'The Jaws for Windows support list.' Subject: RE: JAWS and .pdf This isn't completely correct. Renaming a PDF file that JAWS calls "empty" with a .txt extension won't necessarily make it readable. In my experience, it never does. An "empty" PDF file must be converted with an OCR program. Although I'm not a Kurzweil user, I'd also modify the first part of your message. I assume Kurzweil, like other OCR devices, gives you the option of converting to other formats, such as .txt, .rtf, etc. If that isn't the case with Kurzweil, it's a serious limitation and a reason I wouldn't buy it. -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounces@lists.the-jdh.com [mailto:jfw-bounces@lists.the-jdh.com] On Behalf Of robert hebert Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 11:41 AM To: 'The Jaws for Windows support list.' Subject: RE: JAWS and .pdf It is quite common for pdf documents to be interpreted by screen-reading software as empty documents. This is because the pdf file is what is called an image file. In effect, adobe takes a snapshot of the sender's file and sends that snapshot to the receiving computer. Although a sighted person sees text on the screen, Jaws or other speech readers do not hence Jaws, for instance reports the image as an empty document. Solution: Scanning software has at least 2 solutions for this problem: Using Kurzweil scanning software I can print the image document to the virtual printer. What happens here is that the scanning program scans the screen as if one had a document on the scanner. Each page of your document will be virtually scanned in this way and at the end you will be asked to accept an assigned file name or enter a new one. When saved in this way, only computers with Kurzweil software will be able to read a document in this format. I believe that most, if not all software scanning programs do a similar procedure though I have only used Kurzweil. The second and just a bit more involved solution is to move the "empty" pdf file to a folder where you usually keep your documents then using your scanning software (assuming you have it) select that file through your scanning program's menu, and save it as a file with a .txt extension. Now your file will be saved as a text document and at this point, Jaws or any other screen reading program will be able to read that file. -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounces@lists.the-jdh.com [mailto:jfw-bounces@lists.the-jdh.com] On Behalf Of Ann Marie Medlar Sent: October-18-11 7:23 AM To: The Jaws for Windows support list. Subject: Re: JAWS and .pdf When that happens to me I open .pdf using Openbook scanning software. Hope you have some scanning software. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Smart" <csmart8@cogeco.ca> To: "The Jaws for Windows support list." <jfw@lists.the-jdh.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 9:38 AM Subject: Re: JAWS and .pdf i'm not sure what you mean by an empty document that is readable. _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@lists.the-jdh.com http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@lists.the-jdh.com http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list Jfw@lists.the-jdh.com http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
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