Abby fine reader will do it. On Oct 21, 2013, at 10:53 AM, Jason Doorish <jason.doorish@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: The issue I am running into is when it is a scanned image saved as a PDF file. I guess is there a good OCR program to convert the image to text that is accessible using voice over? Thank you, Jason Doorish From: mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Hilbert Poehlman Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 9:18 AM To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: New Mac User Hi Jason and welcome to the list and your MBA. Preview found in your apps folder will automatically open pdf files and allow you to read and extract text from them. You can either copy the text right out of the app or use some built-in features like open selection with text edit in a new window. I often copy the contents of the document to the clipboard and paste it into my favorite or te most usefull wp at the time. I have ben using jaws for over 20 years and macs for 6 so am somewhat sad to report that you get no help from either program with regard to formatting. On Oct 21, 2013, at 10:05 AM, Jason Doorish <jason.doorish@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hello all, I recently purchased a new mac book air, and I really am liking it. There were the frustrations going from JAWS to voice over for about a week, but for your basic things I am doing ok. I have two questions. I have two different daisy book readers: alleria and one from reading allie, and I have the same issue with both. When I start reading a book, about two minutes later the program stops reading, and voiceover says something to the effect of "you are on html content " and then I am no longer reading. This is frustrating. My other question, is what programs work well with PDF files and voiceover? I work with a lot of scanned PDF's, and would like to be able to convert them into text, that then can be red and manipulated by voice over. Thank you, Jason Doorish ************ You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to their list subscription is: //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind The list archive is located at //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Jonnie Appleseed With His Hands-On Technolog(eye)s touching the internet Reducing Technology's disabilities One Byte At a time -- Jonnie Appleseed With His Hands-On Technolog(eye)s touching the internet Reducing Technology's disabilities One Byte At a time