[gui-talk] PDF's; Empty Document

[Rasmussen, Lloyd]

It's actually called Microsoft Document Imaging.  I have used it on a few PDF documents.  I like Omnipage much better; this is another off-the-shelf OCR program that can even take a PDF and make it into a semblance of a Word document.

When someone is about to send you a PDF document, they can do an accessibility check on it from the Documents menu of Adobe Reader.  If they have Acrobat, they can do the OCR in the Acrobat program before sending you the PDF.


Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress   202-707-0535
http://www.loc.gov/nls
The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of Congress, NLS.

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You know, if you have Microsoft Office, you can go to tools / Microsoft Document Reader.
This actually can run the scanner and do limited OCR and create a .tif file that might be readable.
Try looking in your office suite.
--le

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 10:27 PM
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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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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,
>
> Susan Tabor
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