He means JAWS 2018 but the OCR feature in earlier versions of JAWS should work
reasonably well.
However, if the original documents were very old it might prove difficult to
get a reasonable scan. There are problems caused by the fact that over the
years the print tends to spread which leads to misshaped letters and the
infilling of O, P, q, R, and so on which makes recognition much more difficult.
Most OCR programs have a facility for scanning files that are already on the
computer. Certainly Kurzweil will do it and other less specialised ones I have
used would as well.
Steve
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Behalf Of Muhammad Salman Khan
Sent: 23 October 2017 23:38
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Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: scanned PDF image
Hi,
Ismail,
I tried it with acrobat reader where it was not working.
Godwin, i am not aware of what is just 2018?
thanks to both of you.
On 10/23/17, Godwin Adoyi <gadoyi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
The OCR feature in just 2018 will do the trick.
Godwin Adoyi Agada
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Sent: Monday, October 23, 2017 8:21:38 PM
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Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: scanned PDF image
Have you tried opening them with either acrobat reader,
ABBYYFfineReader or Open book?
-----Original Message-----
From: Muhammad Salman Khan
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2017 9:13 PM
To: jaws-uk
Subject: [jaws-uk] scanned PDF image
Hi all,
there are some historical documents which have been scanned by someone
else to preserve them. the documents are in the pdf image form. is
there any way to make them readable?
Thanking in anticipation.
--
Muhammad Salman Khan.
Doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Enterprise and Economic
Development Research,Middlesex Business School, Middlesex University,
London.
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