Tom, it is not designed to do that because if it is not a scanned image, it shouldn't require OCR. If you want to try the scan, you will have to envoke it with the keystrokes. I suppose someone could

Tom is correct. Sometimes, and I have no idea why, even though a sighted person does not see the words running together, they do even in Word. Spell checkers can help, but you have to be in an

Bill: Regarding "recognize with Jaws", I have found that sometimes, if the file is a scanned image file, recognize with Jaws will come up automatically. In other cases, like the one we are dealing

Owais, I usually do not chime in on this kind of a thread, but I have to heartily agree with Steve and Sieghard for the most part. I do miss some of the things I could do in DOS, but I'm quite happy

I have had this problem too on occasion. I'm using the latest build of Jaws 2018 with Windows 7 here, and experience this issue with Adobe Acrobat DC. Converting the file to a Word document

He stated that he is using Jaws 16 in his original post. But, upgrading to Jaws 2018, if that is possible, would provide a much better experience. Richard “The secret is not to make your music

If you have JAWS 2018, try highlighting the PDF, press either the Applications key or SHIFT plus F10, arrow down to recognize with JAWS, and press ENTER. Wait for a few minutes, and your document

Do you have any control over the font size that is displayed in Adobe Reader? Dave Oregonian, woodworker, Engineer, Musician, and Pioneer

I think the sighted are able to read it fine. Converting it into word is very time-consuming. Is there no other solution?

Owais: What is the impetus behind the move to Windows and JAWS? i.e., if you're successful and feel you are productive on Mac OS, why the change? Why fix what ain't broke? What do you feel would be

My experience with PDF documents is that sometimes, while visually they may look fine, a screen reader will put words together. Then again, sometimes they are just run together in the PDF. Try

Good Morning James While I am not familiar with Math ML I do have a strong math background as I went back to school for Computer Science. I would be willing to look at whatever materials are

Thanks. Where can I get resources to learn about Jaws and Braille support in ithis Sincerely, Owais

Hello all, I have a client who has just joined the users group. I remember sometime back was someone on the list that was either a math teacher, or knew of someone that was in to doing math with

Hi, the former - using it with Acrobat reader. it is a searchable pdf.

Hi, Rahul. How are you rendering the pdf document? are you using Acrobat Reader DC, or are you using the OCR recognition feature of JAWS to render the document into text? This might have a bearing on

Hi everyone, I am using JAWS 16 on a Windows 10 machine. Very often, JAWS reads several words together in a PDF document, which makes it impossible to figure out what it is saying. Is there a way to

Switch to Jaws and Windows, it is superior in so many ways. I am making that statement in those similar words because the statement about Voiceover being superior is subjective and may apply to the

Press JAWS KEY A, and then try any keys or key combinations. JAWS will announce if they have any purpose. Best regards, Carolyn

Net bat, This is exactly what I did of r the Tab and Control keys, but I could not find the Alt Key in the list. Maybe I can find it if I look through the list of labels, not the list of keys. That