[duxuser] Re: Please help!
- From: "Dawes, Stephen" <Stephen.Dawes@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 08:23:03 -0600
George, and all,
There is another pdf conversion option. Quality scanning software can read the
pdf file directly and then perform an OCR on the scanned-in document. I have
Omnipage Pro and it has this feature. This is how I have been able to get
around the scanned document to pdf approach. A second nice thing about this
approach is you can save the OCR output in the format of your choice, such as
word or word perfect.
Stephen Dawes <B.A., B.Sc.>
Management Systems Analyst
Information Technology #8480 | Phone: (403) 268-5527
The City of Calgary | Fax: (403) 268-6423
PO Box 2100 Postal Station M. | Email:
Stephen.Dawes@xxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Stephen.Dawes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Calgary, Alberta, Canada. T2P 2M5 | Web:
http://www.calgary.ca<http://www.calgary.ca/>
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of George Bell
Sent: 2010 September 14 8:17 AM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Please help!
Hi Rosie,
Nothing like being flung in at the deep end! (Smile)
.xls files are usually Excel 2003 or earlier Spreadsheets, and can't be opened
directly into DBT. What you may be able to do is open the spreadsheet in
Excel, and do a "Save As", saving it as say a CSV file (Comma Separated
Variable)
However, you will need to understand what the spreadsheet is all about.
As regards PDF files, they cannot be opened directly in DBT either since they
are essentially a special format. However, if you have an up to date version
of Adobe Reader, you MAY be able to again do a Save As in Adobe, and Save As
text.
And there is a "however" here too. This will only work if the PDF has been
created from a Word Processing package like Word for Windows. Sometimes people
will scan a printed document, and then produce a PDF from that. Net result is
that you won't get any text at all.
George.
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Rosy Goodrich
Sent: 14 September 2010 15:00
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Please help!
Hi Listers:
I have a .xls file to be translated into Braille. Could someone enlighten me
as to how to proceed with this. The other file I have is .pdf, and I need to
remove all the bullets and replace them with dashes. Any help would be
appreciated greatly. Thanks in advance.
Rosy and Ariel
rgoodrich@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:rgoodrich@xxxxxxxxx>
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