Re: Jaws and Adobe Reader

  • From: "Samara Raine" <samararaine@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:27:06 -0400

aahh. I'll see. I suppose I'll have to import it into kurzweil...


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Adrian Spratt 
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 12:16 AM
  Subject: Re: Jaws and Adobe Reader


  I don't have Kurzweil. However, a friend recently figured it out. I'll tell 
you what I recall, but see if a Kurzweil user replies soon with more definitive 
information. My recollection is that after going into Kurzweil, she brought up 
the virtual printer with control-p, and then pressed F5 to read.
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Samara Raine
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 12:09 AM
  Subject: Re: Jaws and Adobe Reader

  Oh! Ok, well I have kurzweil. So how do I do this?

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Adrian Spratt
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 11:22 PM
  Subject: Re: Jaws and Adobe Reader

  Samara,

  First, make sure you have the accessible version of the latest release of 
Adobe Reader, which I think is now up to 9. If the PDF document is a text file, 
this program will take you through the steps for making it accessible. From 
your message, it sounds as though you're more or less up to date in this regard.

  However, when Adobe goes through the conversion process and reports something 
like, "Empty document," it suggests you have an image file. In that case, you 
will need to perform OCR, optical character recognition, on it. If you have a 
Kurzweil 1000 or similar reading device, it will be able to do this task for 
you. Otherwise, you will need to obtain an OCR application such as OmniPage or 
others that have been recommended on this and other lists.

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Samara Raine
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 11:16 PM
  Subject: Re: Jaws and Adobe Reader

  Er...OCR?

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Ray Foret jr
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:51 PM
  Subject: Re: Jaws and Adobe Reader

  Sounds like you need to run OCR on the document.

  Maybe Open Book or Omnipage Pro.

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  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Samara Raine
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:15 PM
  Subject: Jaws and Adobe Reader

  Hi, I'm trying to download some forms from the America's Got Talent site, and 
I know there are things written on the forms, because it'll say "processing 
page 9 of whatever", but when it's done, stupid jaws just keeps saying "alert, 
empty document." I know the damn thing isn't empty and I need these forms. Any 
ideas?

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