[gui-talk] PDF's; Empty Document

[Mike Freeman]

Susan:

To make an existing PDF document that displays as empty readable, you must 
use an OCR tool to convert it to text. The reason the document shows up as 
empty is that, although packaged as a PDF document, it's a scanned image. 
Screen-readers obviously don't know what to do with these. So you must use 
K1000, Open Book, FineReader or similar OCR engine to convert the PDF 
document to text. I've heard there's a way to do this with Microsoft 
products also but I've forgotten the details.

Otherwise, you might want to make clear to those sending you such documents 
that they must type the documents in directly rather than just scanning the 
documents in and sending you the resulting PDF file.

Mike Freeman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan Tabor" <souljourner at sbcglobal.net>
To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 8:19 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] PDF's; Empty Document


> Good evening, all:
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> There's got to be some secret to handling this frustrating problem that
> appears periodically. When I open a PDF and it says Empty Document and I
> know that it's not empty, what do I do to make the document readable?
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> Thank you very much for your assistance!
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> Frustrated but Hopeful,
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> Susan Tabor
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