[duxuser] Re: Please help!
- From: "Eileen Scrivani" <etscrivani@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:30:19 -0400
Message
There is an option in Adobe Reader V9 (accessible version) under the file menu
that will let you save the .PDF as a text document. I know this doesn't give
the formatting options of Word, but it is a quick & easy way of getting the
text that you then can at least bring into Word for further formatting.
HTH.
Eileen
From: Eileen Misrahi
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 10:28 AM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Please help!
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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