Good afternoon,I have never discovered any OCR options in Adobe Reader, perhaps one of their other products would have this feature. From a marketing perspective it just wouldn't make sence to give away an OCR application.
If you're in a bind you can try the trial of Abby FineReader, which is one of the OCR applications included in Kurzweil 1000, and likely OpenBook, and which works quite well with JAWS. I beileve that there is a limit to the number of pages that can be processed with the FineReader trial.
HTH, Everett On 8-Feb-09, at 3:47 PM, James Homuth wrote:
I'm pretty sure there's not. I can't look at the version on this computerto tell you for absolute certainty due to the fact this one's a little less than stable, but since a lot of PDF authors do it for security reasons, I don't believe Adobe gives users of their PDF reader an OCR option. James, List Admin On Sun, February 8, 2009 14:38, Dave Carlson wrote:Hmmm. Isn't there an OCR built into Acrobat Reader, in one of the menus?Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Alan Clendinen To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: February 08, 2009 10:50 AM Subject: re: Adobe Reader Saying Empty Document Katherine,Adobe Acrobat Reader will tell you that a PDF document is empty if thereis only graphics in the document. If the graphic image has text in it,it is unreadable by JAWS because the text is just part of the image. The solution is to use an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) program, such as OpenBook, Abbey Fine Reader, ect. to convert the text in the image toscreen-reader accessible text. Alan -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxTo unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw Alternative archives located at: http://n2.nabble.com/JAWS-for-Windows-f2145279.htmlIf you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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