[bcab] Re: Reading PDFs

The  reason this is happening is due to the fact that the pdf is made up
of scanned bitmap images. The headings and page numbers are often in
text, but the actual body of each page is an image. The upshot of this
is that however good your screenreader, you won't get it to reead it. I
use finereader which will ocr a pdf and convert it to readable text, but
I have to admit such pdfs are a pain.

Dave.

rosemary


-----Original Message-----
From: bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Vince Thacker
Sent: 30 November 2006 21:08
To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bcab] Re: Reading PDFs

Ian, for what it's worth, I tried it with Thunder. Normally, Thunder
will 
cope pretty well if I select text in a PDF file and trigger the speech,
but 
as soon as I selected most pages here, I had a warning that the page may
be 
blank or be a graphic. Err, haven't come across quite that scenario
before! 
Text either selects or there isn't any. This seems to be a bit of both -
I 
don't understand how that could be, but that's what I've found.

Vince.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Crisp " <charlescrisp@xxxxxxx>
To: <bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 7:23 PM
Subject: [bcab] Re: Reading PDFs


> Ian
>
> The pdf did not seem to read with Zoomtext Neospeech. The only parts
which
> were readable were the side bar and the web links in the document.
>
> As a matter of interest, I have had problems with some pdf but most
read 
> in
> their entirety. Equipment manuals downloaded from web sites are
invaluable
> for reading.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Charles Crisp
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> From: bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf
> Of Ian Litterick
> Sent: 30 November 2006 17:45
> To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bcab] Reading PDFs
>
> Hi all Jaws and Supernova users (or other V I screen reader users)
> preferably on Broadband
>
> I am doing some work on the readability of P D F documents with screen
> readers for the British Dyslexia Association's Contact magazine and
our
> web site. It may also be relevant for the Right to Read Campaign.
>
> Adobe have a PDF on "Creating Accessible PDF Documents with Adobe
> Acrobat" at
> http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/accessibility/pdfs/acro7_pg_ue.pdf.
(Its
> 10MB)
>
> I wonder if any Jaws or Supernova users would mind taking a look at it
> for a couple of minutes for me. Can you hear it all? (because the T T
S
> systems that I have used can't, including the Acrobat built in one.
> Specifically can you hear:
> Page 1 subhead lines 3 & 4 "A guide for publishing PDF . . ."
> Page 2 the copyright & trademark notice
> Page 3 Contents page line 4 + -- do you hear anything between
"Software
> described in this guide 1" and "Acrobat system requirements 2"
>
> Many Thanks in Anticipation for all feedback.
>
> Ian Litterick
> Executive Chairman
> www.iansyst.co.uk
> www.dyslexic.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Booth, Alan
> Sent: 30 November 2006 12:49
> To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bcab] Jaws friendly DVD rewriting software?
>
> Aftermorning All
>
> Can anyone recommend DVD writing software that is Jaws friendly
please?
>
> Thanks
>
> Alan
>
>
>
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