RE: Text Editors that work best with Jaws?
- From: "Marquette, Ed" <Ed.Marquette@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 21:27:40 -0500
OK.
You have at least three options, all of which are better than having to mess
with Notepad.
First, there are a number of third party utilities that "clean up" scanned
documents. We have one at work, not for blind people, but for general office
use. It gets rid of the garbage,and it does a fantastic job. It even
preserves the formatting should that be important, which probably isn't, given
that you are willing to put up with Notepad.
Second, if you are happy with just getting the text into Notepad (pure text)
format, From within Word, just highlight all your text with control plus A.
Then copy it into the buffer with control plus c. Then delete everything out.
Next, depending on what flavor of Word you are using, go to edit, paste
special, unformatted Unicode text.
The whole operation should take less than 5 seconds, and you'll have the
equivalent of a pure text document, except it is in a real word processor.
Third, if you are doing the scanning, set the scanner (I use OmniPage) to scan
to text only.
You shouldn't be forced to use Notepad for anything -- unless it is just a
quick note (and then it isn't all that good) or you are writing programs (and
there are much better alternatives there too).
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Brandon Keith
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 9:07 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Text Editors that work best with Jaws?
I have always used word until a little while ago when I started dealing with
scanned material with all kinds of crazy tables and objects being placed into
columns. When I place all that into Notepad it all goes away. So because I'm
having to read everything in Notepad I don't have all the spellchecker to make
sure a word is spelled right and I don't have a thesaurus to check words on the
spot. So I'm wondering if there is any way to beef up Notepad so I can stop
using word with all the messed up formatting problems?
Thanks,
Brandon Keith
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From: Allison Mervis<mailto:allisonfm@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 6:59 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Text Editors that work best with Jaws?
I don't know who told you that Microsoft Word doesn't work well with Jaws, but
unless you're using a really old version of Jaws with a newer version of Word,
you've been misled. Word is extremely accessible with Jaws, and has been for
many years.
Allison
http://www.allisonmervis.com/
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brandon Keith
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 9:00 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Text Editors that work best with Jaws?
Hello,
I was told and found that Notepad works way better with Jaws than Word does.
But I'm writing papers and whatnot in Notepad, but there is no thesaurus and I
don't believe any spellchecker.
Is there any way to beef up Notepad? Or are there any other text editors that
have the features of word?
Thank you,
Brandon Keith
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