[Arizona-students] Trick for Accessing PDF Documents

[Allison Hilliker]

For me, I use Kurzweil 1000 to recognize and read PDF documents.  I find the 
file, hit the applications key, and there is an option in the list that 
comes up that says, open with.  You then arrow through the list of programs 
that it shows and then hit enter on Kurzweil.  Kurzweil will open the file, 
and then will pause while it recognizes the text in the file.  It may take a 
few minutes depending on the size of the file, but it should be able to be 
read once recognized.   It can be read right in Kurzweil then or converted 
to be read by Word or another program if one prefers.  So far that has 
worked best for me with PDF.  That said, Adobe 7 does have a lot of 
interesting new accessibility features that I've yet to check out fully. 
They could be better still.

Best,

Allison



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arielle Silverman" <Arielle.Silverman at asu.edu>
To: "Arizona Association of Blind Students" <arizona-students at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 12:07 AM
Subject: [Arizona-students] Trick for Accessing PDF Documents


Hey, students! I was cleaning out my inbox and came across an old email that 
appeared on the NABS list about PDF documents. I know that blind computer 
users have had varying degrees of success with PDF's. Apparently, it is 
possible to convert a PDF to a text file by sending it as an attachment to
pdf2txt at adobe.com
Has anyone done this? If you know any other tricks/problems with PDF's, 
please share.

Arielle Silverman


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