[duxuser] Re: Please help!
- From: "Eileen Misrahi" <eileenmis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:28:43 -0700
George,
In general, when working with PDF files that the document has been saved as
a scanned image, I will use one of the virtual printer that is bundled with
either Kurzweil or Open Book. At that point, I can save the document in a
Word format. DBT only likes Word 2003 for now until the new version is
release.I don't know if this will work for Rosie. It's a lot of work just to
get a PDF file to work with DBT, but this is what I needed to do while in
graduate school and the professors sure liked scanning the supplemental
readings as a PDF file.
Eileen
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of George Bell
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 7:17 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
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