[visionrehabtherapist] Re: making scanned PDF accessible as text document
- From: "Unger, Jim (DELEG)" <UngerJ@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "McCall, Roberta (DELEG)" <mccallr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "'visionrehabtherapist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <visionrehabtherapist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:34:48 -0500
Roberta and all, when I get a document that JAWS says is a blank document I go
into OpenBook, you can also use Kurzweil 1000, and open the document after
telling Openbook that you are opening a PDF document. It may not be in the
exact order but you will at least know what is in the document. Not the perfect
solution but at least a "back door" approach to the problem. Hope that this
helps.
Jim
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Subject: [visionrehabtherapist] making scanned PDF accessible as text document
I received these instructions recently from a librarian who was helping with
PDF documents.
(quote)"To test if a document is scanned and not possible to read using JAWS,
try the "find" option to search for a word that is definitely in the document.
If the "find" cannot locate the word, it is a scanned rather than a untagged
PDF file.
I open the document using Adobe Acrobat Professional 9. Then I select Document,
then OCR Text Recognition, then I select Recognize Text Using OCR and I choose
All pages. The program runs through each page.
Hope this is useful."(end quote)
I do not know if Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 is useable with JAWS or not.
Roberta McCall, CVRT
mccallr@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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