[blindlaw] PDF Forms and JFW

Craig Borne cborne at mdot.state.md.us
Mon Feb 26 10:03:07 CST 2007 

These are PDF documents found on governmental or court websites
necessary for filings or guidance.  I am not converting the PDF doc;
rather, it is being read by JFW -- only squished together.
PDF docs that are merely scanned images, much like a JPG or TIF doc, are
not converted by the Adobe program.  Printing and rescanning with
Kurzweil seems to be the way to go (unless it can just be imported into
Kurzweil and converted, bypassing the printing stage, which I don't know
whether it will work). 
My issue is only with those PDF docs that are text based, found on-line,
and are not readable by JFW because all of the words run together as one
long word.
Short of converting them to Word and editing the doc
character-by-character, I was hoping that another solution was possible.
Craig

Craig Borne, Esq.
Director, Office of Federal/State Compliance
Maryland Department of Transportation
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P.O. Box 548, M.S. 330
Hanover, MD 21076
Phone: 410-865-1378
Fax: 410-865-1113
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-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Russell J. Thomas
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 10:54 AM
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Subject: Re: [blindlaw] PDF Forms and JFW

I am not sure what you are using to convert PDF documents.  In my
opinion the most reliable conversion software now available is PDF
converter version
4 made by Nuance.


-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Craig Borne
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 7:38 AM
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Subject: Re: [blindlaw] PDF Forms and JFW

When I run through the line with control plus right arrow, it reads it
like it is one long word.  When I only use the right arrow, it reads
each character with no noticeable break between words.
Craig 


Craig Borne, Esq.
Director, Office of Federal/State Compliance Maryland Department of
Transportation
7201 Corporate Center Drive
P.O. Box 548, M.S. 330
Hanover, MD 21076
Phone: 410-865-1378
Fax: 410-865-1113
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-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Steve Jacobson
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 10:08 AM
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Subject: Re: [blindlaw] PDF Forms and JFW

Do you find any characters at all separating the words?  In other words,
are there characters other than spaces or does one word run right into
another even when you arrow through them with the left and right arrows?

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 06:51:08 -0500, Craig Borne wrote:

>Thank you very much for all of the suggestions.
>The funny thing is that the PDF file is "accessible," only the words 
>are all run together.  When saving the PDF doc as text under the file 
>menue, the resulting Word doc is also unreadable due to the words being

>pushed together.
>Would Acrobat or Kurzweil seperate the words through their programs?  
>Craig

>Craig Borne, Esq.

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>On Behalf Of albert griffith
>Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 3:33 AM
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>I use Acrobat Professional 8 to save the files in, "accessible text
format."

>This has worked when other methods haven't.  The program's expensive 
>but you

>also get an excellent form creator with combo boxes, pull-down menus 
>and every device needed to create forms which really work.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
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>Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 1:06 AM
>Subject: Re: [blindlaw] PDF Forms and JFW


>|I have seen this, and I do not know of a solution.
>|
>| Dave
>|
>| At 09:21 PM 2/25/2007, you wrote:
>| >Hello all,
>| >Lately, I have been sent documents in PDF that are not readily
>accessible.
>| >The text is read by the screen reading program, but the words are
run
>| >together, like this:
>| >Pleasereturntheformsinthesamemannerinwhichyouhavereceivedit.
>| >The words are so close that JFW reads it as one long word.
>| >Has anyone else experienced this, and does anyone have a suggestion
to
>| >remedy it?
>| >Thank you very much.
>| >Craig
>| >
>| >Craig Borne, Esq.
>| >
>| >Estate Planning and Business Law
>| >
>| >
>| >
>| >Ostendorf Zimmer Yake & Borne, LLC
>| >
>| >Attorneys at Law
>| >
>| >
>| >
>| >8830 Orchard Tree Lane, Towson, Maryland 21286
>| >
>| >Office: (443) 632-3616            Toll Free: (888) OZYB-4-Me
>| >
>| >Facsimile: (443) 632-3634           www.OZYBLaw.com
>| >
>| >
>| >
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