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

[David Andrews]

Joel,  It is saying empty document because there is no text per se in 
it.  The document is most likely an image, it could be a scan of a 
page or document, that hasn't been run through OCR.  The creator 
takes the image and places that in the PDF document.

Some OCR programs can take this kind of PDF and extract the text for you.

Dave

At 11:24 AM 7/11/2007, you wrote:
>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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