[blindlaw] PDF Forms and JFW

[Carrie Ann Lucas]

Adobe Acrobat Standard 7.0 does a decent job of converting  scanned printed
pages into readable test.  I use Zoomtext so the accuracy is not as
important for me, but I find that Acrobat does a better job than my old
version of Omnipage.  

Carrie Ann Lucas
Attorney/Equal Justice Works Fellow
Center for Rights of Parents with Disabilities Colorado Cross-Disability
Coalition
655 Broadway, Suite 775
Denver, CO 80203
303.839.1775 (voice
303.839.0015 (TTY and CapTel)
303.839.1782 (facsimile)
800.817.1435 (voice)
877.267.1621(TTY and CapTel)
www.ccdconline.org 
 

-----Original Message-----
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