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

[Steve Jacobson]

Sherri,

You may have missed these notes earlier today, but from what I remember, Kurzweil 1000, OmniPage, FineReader, and 
Open Book all have the capability to help with PDF's stored as images.  In addition, there is a tool that comes with some 
versions of Microsoft Office that can do this as well.  All of the OCR programs can perform the OCR directly on the PDF 
file eliminating the need to print and then scan the file.

On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:16:52 -0400, Sherri wrote:

>Nick, you said in your message that the file could be an image file and 
>needs to be OCR'ed. What program do I use to do that? I get image files all 
>the time and usually just end up printing them out and having someone read 
>them to me or I print and scan them myself. Any shortcut would be 
>appreciated and you are welcome to message me off-list if you wish.

>Thanks.
>Sherri
>sbrun at cfl.rr.com
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "W. Nick Dotson" <nickdotson at bellsouth.net>
>To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 12:43 PM
>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] need help to open a difficult .pdf file


>It could be a "pdf" made of page images, which need to be OCR'ed.

>Nick

>On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:24:58 -0700, Joel Deutsch 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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