Unfortunately, I get these "images" all the time. You can use either
OmniPage; however, that is often rather slow and a bit cumbersome.
Another option is PDF Converter. It converts PDF documents into Word (or
other formatted documents). It is fast and easy. It is installed as an
option within Word and within Office email.
So, just click on the PDF attachment and the document is converted.
The beauty is that it converts whether it is a true PDF document, i.e.,
one with real text, or an image. In other words, it has an OCR engine
built-in.
I got mine free with OmniPage, but I'll bet you can buy it free-standing.
I think it may use the same OCR engine as does OmniPage. That same engine
used to be what did the OCR work in OpenBook, but I haven't used OpenBook
for years. So, I don't know what OCR engine it uses now.
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Farfar Carlson
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 10:58 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Here is the PDF file I'm talking about!
Likely.
Dave Carlson
Produced on a Nokia N95 using Nuance TALKS screen-reading software.
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Subject: Re: Here is the PDF file I'm talking about!
From: "Brandon Keith" <brandonboy13@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 10-14-2010 08:43
Ahh, OK, what about curswale (or how ever you spell it XD)...
Will that work as well?
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From: Farfar Carlson
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 8:25 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Here is the PDF file I'm talking about!
Openbook from Freedom Scientific will work on these, as well as those
already printed out on paper.
I've also seen others recommending Omnipage.
You are basically needing an optical character recognition application
that can process your image files as though you're sending them to a
printer.
Dave
Created in the Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Jose, California
----- Original Message -----
From: Brandon Keith
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 07:52
Subject: Re: Here is the PDF file I'm talking about!
Thank you,
Are there any good programs that do the character recognition that are
accessible?
I get documents like this all the time either for school or work and I
need to know what they are saying in a matter of hours. I have to then
drop everything I'm doing and go find a sighted person who can read this
document to me, then type it out by hand as they read it to me.
It is very frustrating and sighted people can't tell the difference
between this PDF document and normal text PDFs.
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From: GlenJan
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 12:10 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Here is the PDF file I'm talking about!
Hello Dave,
Thanks for that info; I was aware of this but was trying to make the
point - badly - that calling a document a PDF file does not necessarily
make it accessible.
Glen
On 14-Oct-2010 17:58, Farfar Carlson wrote:
Glen,
PDF files are often created as each page being an image of something.
This usually happens when a PDF file is created from a scanner. So it's
okay that it's PDF.
Dave
Created in the Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Jose, California
----- Original Message -----
From: GlenJan
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 23:45
Subject: Re: Here is the PDF file I'm talking about!
Brandon,
This is nothing more than a series of pictures, one picture per page
which has been saved with a PDF file extension.
No idea why this one has been saved with a PDF file extension, but
it's still a picture and therefore should have a file extension of .jpg.
To make it accessible to a screen reader, you would need to use
Optical Character Recognition to turn it into text.
HTH.
Glen
On 14-Oct-2010 16:06, Brandon Keith wrote:
Here,
I forgot to attach it on the last email!
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