Re: Here is the PDF file I'm talking about!

Thank you,

Are there any good programs that do the character recognition that are accessible?

I get documents like this all the time either for school or work and I need to know what they are saying in a matter of hours. I have to then drop everything I'm doing and go find a sighted person who can read this document to me, then type it out by hand as they read it to me.

It is very frustrating and sighted people can't tell the difference between this PDF document and normal text PDFs.

Thank you,

 

Brandon Keith

 

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From: GlenJan

Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 12:10 AM

To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: Re: Here is the PDF file I'm talking about!

Hello Dave,
Thanks for that info;  I was aware of this but was trying to make the point - badly - that calling a document a PDF file does not necessarily make it accessible.
Glen


On 14-Oct-2010 17:58, Farfar Carlson wrote:

Glen,

 

PDF files are often created as each page being an image of something. This usually happens when a PDF file is created from a scanner. So it's okay that it's PDF.

Dave
Created in the Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Jose, California

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: GlenJan

To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 23:45

Subject: Re: Here is the PDF file I'm talking about!

Brandon,
This is nothing more than a series of pictures, one picture per page which has been saved with a PDF file extension.
No idea why this one has been saved with a PDF file extension, but it's still a picture and therefore should have a file extension of .jpg.
To make it accessible to a screen reader, you would need to use Optical Character Recognition to turn it into text.
HTH.
Glen


On 14-Oct-2010 16:06, Brandon Keith wrote:

Here,

I forgot to attach it on the last email!

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