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

[Joel Deutsch]

Dave,
I see now. It's the kind of thing Chuck's saying has to be decoded by a 
function in Office/word or, as I have herd about, in Open Book. Thanks. Boy, 
do they throw a scare into you when Jaws yells Warning! Empty document! Why 
"warning?"

Ack.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] need help to open a difficult .pdf file


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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