Re: jaws and adobe reader problem need help
- From: Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 09:48:26 -0600
OmniPage 17 is great! It also allows you to scan directly into MS Word, and,
in many instances, the OCR results are more accurate than OpenBook. I
especially find that OmniPage does a really great job at scanning things like
bank statements... it places everything in a table that is easy to read.
HTH
Russell
On 2010-08-04, at 9:51 AM, Adrian Spratt wrote:
> A much cheaper option is OmniPage, which has served me well. I bought my
> copy, version 17, for $99. that price was advertised as a promotion, but the
> promotion seemed to go on so long that I think it became the actual price. It
> doesn't provide everything the two reading systems you mention do, but it's
> an affordable and simple-to-use application for converting PDF image files to
> a variety of formats. It also gets exceptional ratings for accuracy.
>
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Farfar Carlson
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 9:50 AM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: jaws and adobe reader problem need help
>
> Andy,
>
> You're looking at a scanned image. Your sighted coworkers can see this as a
> pure graphical image. Happens to me several times a month.
>
> There is nothing wrong with JAWS and nothing wrong with Adobe.
>
> You need to use an OCR program like Openbook or Kurzweil to recognize the
> text on the document and convert to a text or Word file.
>
> Many on this list will have suggestions for other OCR converters, if you
> don't have these.
>
> Dave
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: andy
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 06:27
> Subject: jaws and adobe reader problem need help
>
> hello listers i am having a problem with a document in adobe reader 9.3 i
> have had a company e-mail me a document 3 times and every time i open it with
> adobe reader it says alert empty document i tried this on 2 diferent
> computers and get the same results is this a problem with jaws or adobe
> reader or is something else going on the reps at the company say they can
> read it with no problem i would really appreciate any thoughts on this
> problem. i am using the latest jaws 11 andXP SP 3 on one computer with adobe
> 9.3 and vista SP 2 with the same setup on the other.
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