Converting PDF Document Revisited

  • From: "Gerald Levy" <bwaylimited@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "JFW list" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:57:11 -0500

Here we go again.    I received an email attachment that contained a PDF file, 
but when I tried to open it using Adobe Reader X, I got the dreaded empty 
document message, which means that Adobe Reader was unable to convert it to 
text.  So I selected Freedom Import Printer from the Print menu to scan the 
document with Open Book.  I have both Open Book 7.0.2 and the demo version of 
Open Book 9 installed on my computer.  But when I selected OB 7.0.2 to scan the 
document, I got an "unknown file type" error message when OB 7 attempted to 
open the file.  Is there any easy way to fix this problem without removing both 
OB 7 and OB 9 and reinstalling OB 7?  If not, is there any other way to convert 
this document into a text format that is readable by JAWS?  Someone mentioned 
something called Image Writer, but I can't find it on my computer, so I assume 
that it is either not available or not enabled.   I am running JAWS 9 with XP 
Pro.  Thanks for any help.

Gerald 

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