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

[Andrew Kirkpatrick]

I'll add that there is an OCR tool built into Adobe Acrobat also.  It is
not built into Adobe Reader, unfortunately.
AWK 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org 
> [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Steve Jacobson
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:33 AM
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] need help to open a difficult .pdf file
> 
> 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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