MessageHi. Omni Page Pro is about the same price as Fine Reader, £79.99 from the Nuance online store but in my experience it is less accessible and unnecessarily complicated to use when compared to Fine Reader. If you are a student however, Nuance does offer significantly discounted products however you’d need to prove you were studying by going through a validation process. All the best, Ibrahim. From: Colin Phelan Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 7:45 PM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Pdf conversion as does Omny Page for less than that -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard Godfrey-McKay Sent: 03 January 2012 13:13 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Pdf conversion John, Abby FineReader (about £80) has a specific option to convert PDF files to Word in it. The OCR software converts the image into text, just as something like Kurzweil or OpenBook does - but without the need to use a scanner. Regards, Richard Richard Godfrey-McKay Telephone: 01738-445 880 Mobile: 07791 452 593 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Gregory Sent: 03 January 2012 13:07 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Pdf conversion Maybe Richard, but an image is an image and haven't found any way other than rescanning to get around this yet. However, if it works, then please do let the list know as it is a constant pain for me when trying to read pdf articles for my PhD. Cheers. John. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard Godfrey-McKay Sent: 03 January 2012 12:34 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Pdf conversion John, I think that Abbyy FineReader would do the image to text conversion, as it's an OCR programme. Richard Richard Godfrey-McKay Telephone: 01738-445 880 Mobile: 07791 452 593 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Gregory Sent: 03 January 2012 12:29 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Pdf conversion Hi Richard, I don't think you will be able to convert an image into a Word document. For this to happen, even with the Pro version of Adobe Acrobat X - which I have - the file would need to be a text file. It will merely create an image file in the Word document. However, if you have some other means of doing this, then please accept my apologies. John. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard Godfrey-McKay Sent: 03 January 2012 11:58 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Pdf conversion Mike, If you send it to me off list at richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I should be able to convert it to Word. Richard Richard Godfrey-McKay Telephone: 01738-445 880 Mobile: 07791 452 593 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Gregory Sent: 03 January 2012 11:21 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Pdf conversion Hi Mike, If the file has been scanned as an image, then I don't know of anything that will actually convert it. JAWS 13 will read the first page of a scanned image, but it cannot be saved and converted and you would need to scan each page and read it - quite a labour intensive process. The only option I can think of is to print the pages and scan in as an accessible document rather than an image. Cheers. John. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Moore Sent: 02 January 2012 23:53 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Pdf conversion Hello, I have a Pdf file, a book, and it is as an image scan, or viewed as a blank document by JFW. I need to convert it, but Kurzweil will not handle a document of its size, 62000 Kb. Any suggestions please? Kindest, Mike