RE: JAWS & PDF extraction web site
- From: "Chip Orange" <Corange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:57:30 -0500
I was able to use this site to open a local pdf file and convert it to
text, and then save the converted text back to my local disk.
It was tedious to use.
I then did the same thing with Adobe 8.1 reader, using the "save as
text" option of the file menu.
It was much easier, and I thought the results were better (despite the
site's claim that you must buy Adobe Acrobat Professional in order to
get good results, which I don't believe).
Neither will allow you access to passworded PDFs as well as image-only
ones as Dean mentioned.
Chip
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dean Martineau
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 12:06 PM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: JAWS & PDF extraction web site
>
> Dave, that site appears to be quite accessible, but I'm not
> sure it's the
> best way to convert PDF documents. Briefly, you first have
> to accept the
> license agreement, then you upload a PDF document to the
> site. I uploaded a
> short one, and immediately saw the results in a read-only
> edit field. You
> see one page at a time.
>
> I, or others, can doubtless help you with this site. Keep in
> mind that it
> won't help you if the PDF document you are trying to read is
> only an image,
> and does not contain any text. For that, you need to use an
> OCR program.
> If the PDF document does contain text, I recommend putting effort into
> installing and learning EdSharp, a very versatile text
> editor, which has the
> ability to open PDF documents in a text window.
>
> If the PDF document you are trying to access is one that is publicly
> available for download, others can look at it and see what
> problems it may
> be causing. Otherwise, keep the questions coming.
>
> Dean
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Dave Mitchell
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 2:44 AM
> To: jfw list
> Subject: JAWS & PDF extraction web site
>
> Hi, Even the latest Adobe PDF utility configured for screen
> reader access
> is having trouble with 2 different files I am trying to access.
>
> The site at the link below seems to offer some hope but I
> cannot find the
> trick to following the steps in their Help file.
>
> http://pdftextonline.com/
>
> Has anyone successfully used this site with JAWS 9 and, if
> so, can you
> provide some instructions. As I have often admitted, a Power
> User I am not.
>
> Thanks, Mitch
> "To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do
> not know what
> we do not know, that is true knowledge."
>
> Nicolaus Copernicus
>
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