[gui-talk] PDF's; Empty Document

[Ray Foret Jr]

Mike is quite correct.  Also, on the Mac side, Abby Fine Reader is the OCR tool I use to handle such occurrences.  IF you cannot afford an OCR tool to do the job, find a friend whom you trust implicitly and who has such tools; and, have them do the conversion for you.  This solution is less desirable however, because, if you're dealing with a documents the contents of which are highly confidential, you really would be placing a lot of trust in that friend that he/she will not even read the contents beyond confirming that the conversion has taken place.  That's why it's better to execute a solution yourself if you can.  
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!

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On Sep 1, 2010, at 10:27 PM, Mike Freeman wrote:

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>
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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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