[gui-talk] need help to open a difficult .pdf file

[Andrew Kirkpatrick]

OCR is Optical Character Recognition.  The scanner takes a digital image
and then runs the software analysis on the image to find the text.  If
you start with the PDF of digital images it is the same process but the
scan has already been done.

AWK 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org 
> [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 1:17 PM
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] need help to open a difficult .pdf file
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Nick says the same thing, but I don't know what it means to 
> "use OCR" on it. 
> Now, I have a scanner and I use Open Book, but that certainly 
> can't apply, in this case, because I don't have anything 
> printed to lay on the scanner. 
> So we're talking about something else to do with OCR technology?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Kirkpatrick" <akirkpat at adobe.com>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 9:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] need help to open a difficult .pdf file
> 
> 
> If you run the accessibility quick check it suggests that the file may
> be a scanned document (it is).  If you have Acrobat you can use OCR on
> it to get some access.
> 
> AWK
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
> > [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 12:25 PM
> > To: GUI-Talk
> > Subject: [gui-talk] need help to open a difficult .pdf file
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Usually, when I encounter a .pdf file, I can click on it and
> > have it open and become readable with Adobe Reader. I have
> > the latest version, if I remember correctly, and it set
> > itself up to interact with Jaws when I installed it.
> >
> > But with this file, when I try to open it, I get the Adobe
> > interface screen (I can see this happening) but, within a few
> > seconds after I hear the usual message that Adobe's preparing
> > the document for reading, a message comes on saying Warning!
> > Empty document.
> >
> > Warning? This is like a terrorist problem or something?
> > Anyway, I'm sure it's not an empty (does that mean blank?)
> > document to the person who sent it to me. Why is Adobe saying
> > it's empty, now?
> >
> > I'm I composed this message as a forward in order to retain
> > the .pdf file attachment, but I just realized it'll be
> > stripped out of the email as the message is distributed. Oh,
> > well. So if anyone more experienced than me would like to try
> > their hand at opening the file so they can help me figure out
> > how to handle an impasse like this, just write me at
> > jdeutsch at dslextreme.com, and I'll gladly send the file as I
> > meant to do here to begin with.
> >
> > thankss a lot.
> >
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