RE: Can anyone open PDFs with Jaws really
- From: "Dean Martineau" <dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:23:19 -0700
OpenBook is an OCR program, and is well-designed to perform OCR on those
pdfs that contain no readable text. It would do a better job on these files
than the free pdf2txt package since it has a superior OCR engine.
Dean
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Mike Mote
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 5:16 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Can anyone open PDFs with Jaws really
Does Open Book work the same when it comes to reading PDF files? Just a
question?
----- Original Message -----
From: Dean Martineau <mailto:dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 2:37 PM
Subject: RE: Can anyone open PDFs with Jaws really
Hi, Jim. There are a number of things to look at here. One is whether the
pdf documents people are sending you contain text. If they don't, you need
to perform OCR on them with a program designed to read print, so that the
text wwill be recognized and turned into readable text.
When you say you have the latest version of Adobe Reader, I assume you mean
version 8. It would be interesting to know what happens when you try to
open a pdf document with this version.
There is a third-party program that some people like to use, pdf2txt. It is
free, and it can do a limited job of performing OCR on the pdf's that are
just pictures of text. You can get it at
http://EmpowermentZone.com/p2tsetup.exe
If you already use the EdSharp editor, the pdf conversion routine is
included in it.
This should get you started. Pdf documents are mostly quite usable, so we
should be able to figure this out.
Dean
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jim Talley
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 11:52 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Can anyone open PDFs with Jaws really
Hi all, People keep sending me PDF documents. I have the latest Adobe
software, yet I can not open the documents. Can any of you help me. I am
using Jaws 7.0 with Win XP home. Is there third party software for this
task. Thank you in advance!
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