Re: help with adobe and jaws12?
- From: "Farfar Carlson" <dgcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 21:49:03 -0700
Carliss,
what you're seeing (or rather your brother is seeing) is a graphical image, or
picture of the page, and not a page with any text information that JAWS can
use. We often get these pages from sighted people who don't realize that they
are very different from a standard PDF file. They are simply a scanned image or
"snapshot" of a page that is pasted onto the page in the PDF file. So of course
you can count the number of pages, just like you can count the number of
photographs in your family photo album -- but of course you can't see any of
them.
Adrian explained that you need to use some program that will view the image and
convert anything that looks like text into a file that JAWS can read for us.
You say you have Openbook 8. Then you have the Freedom Import Printer
installed, also.
When you have your PDF file open in Adobe, Ctrl+P to open the print dialog, and
in the printer selection box, find Freedom Import Printer and press Enter.
This will launch Openbook and it will convert all the pages of that PDF file
into readable text.
It will not be perfect, but a lot better than staring at a virtually blank page.
Dave
Composed on a Dell Latitude 630 in the general vicinity of my Audio Recording
and Mixing Studios, San Francisco Bay Area.
----- Original Message -----
From: Carliss
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 20:44
Subject: RE: help with adobe and jaws12?
Adrian,
Can you explain just what you mean, I do have openbook8.
Thanks.
carliss
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Adrian Spratt
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 10:28 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: help with adobe and jaws12?
Carlos,
When Adobe and JAWS tell you "empty document," it means you need to perform
OCR, optical character recognition, before JAWS can read it. Do you have a
system like OpenBook or Kurzweil Reader? They can do this conversion.
Otherwise, there are other programs that can do the job, as people on this list
can pass along. The one I use is OmniPage.
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Carliss
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 11:18 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: help with adobe and jaws12?
Listers,
I have installed and uninstalled and reinstalled Adobe reader9.3, and am
having the same problem; wich is, Jaws isn't seeing some of the scannings. My
brother is telling me that the document is there as clear as day but Jaws12
just isn't seeing it. Now other scanning of the same document jaws does see
and read.
When Jaws doesn't see the document the message is, "alert, know pages." But
the pages are there! I also know that the pages are there because when Adobe
is putting the pages in order Jaws will say how many pages there are, and
again, my brother reads.
Can someone tell me how and why, is Jaws12, reading some scans and not
reading other scans of the exact same document?!
This is a health document and I really want to have it in PDF form, it's
about 70 pages which is really nothing for adobe or jaws to handle.
Well, Please forgive me for such a long post, but I need this help.
Thanks! To all.
Carliss
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