Re: Adobe Reader Saying Empty Document

  • From: "E.J. Zufelt" <lists@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 16:12:21 -0400

Good afternoon,
I have never discovered any OCR options in Adobe Reader, perhaps one of their other products would have this feature. From a marketing perspective it just wouldn't make sence to give away an OCR application.
If you're in a bind you can try the trial of Abby FineReader, which is one of the OCR applications included in Kurzweil 1000, and likely OpenBook, and which works quite well with JAWS. I beileve that there is a limit to the number of pages that can be processed with the FineReader trial. 

HTH,
Everett


On 8-Feb-09, at 3:47 PM, James Homuth wrote:
I'm pretty sure there's not. I can't look at the version on this computer 
to tell you for absolute certainty due to the fact this one's a little
less than stable, but since a lot of PDF authors do it for security
reasons, I don't believe Adobe gives users of their PDF reader an OCR
option.

James,
List Admin
On Sun, February 8, 2009 14:38, Dave Carlson wrote:
Hmmm. Isn't there an OCR built into Acrobat Reader, in one of the menus? 

Dave

 ----- Original Message -----
 From: Alan Clendinen
 To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 Sent: February 08, 2009 10:50 AM
 Subject: re: Adobe Reader Saying Empty Document


 Katherine,
Adobe Acrobat Reader will tell you that a PDF document is empty if there 
is only graphics in the document. If the graphic image has text in it,
it is unreadable by JAWS because the text is just part of the image. The solution is to use an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) program, such as OpenBook, Abbey Fine Reader, ect. to convert the text in the image to 
screen-reader accessible text.

 Alan


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