[GUI-Talk] searching PDFs and trouble reading them in Firefox

[Lee Jones]

You might like to try the following -

Save the PDF file.
Go to File Explorer and locate the file.
Copy the file with Control&C.
Open Word then press Control&O to open the Open file dialogue box.

Paste the File with Control&V into the File name field and press Enter.

This will open the PDF file retaining the formatting and can be navigated/searched as a normal Word document.  It is still a PDF file but you can of course save it again using the Save As field to change it to what ever you require.


-----Original Message-----
From: GUI-Talk <gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Curtis Chong via GUI-Talk
Sent: Thursday, 22 December 2022 1:50 AM
To: 'Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List' <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Curtis Chong <chong.curtis at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [GUI-Talk] searching PDFs and trouble reading them in Firefox

Madison:

Searching a PDF will only work if what you are looking at is real coded text as opposed to a picture of text. I can tell you what I do to search PDF documents hoping that some of what I am using works for you.

First and foremost, I prefer to read PDF documents using Adobe's Acrobat free software. In so doing, I have to load the entire document into memory and search using the JAWS Find command: CTRL+JAWSKEY+F. The down side with this approach is that large PDF documents that are more than fifty pages long do take some time to load. If formatting is not an issue for me, after I open the document in Acrobat, I copy and paste (formatted text) the entire thing into a blank Word document. This approach usually deletes any useful tagging that might be imbedded in the document such as header tags, links, etc. But in most situations, this approach is all I need.

In terms of web browsing, I long ago gave up on Mozilla Firefox. Today, I am using Google Chrome, which works with JAWS. But I should point out here that Edge and Brave, both of which are now Chromium-based, also work well with JAWS. The folks who developed and support Firefox have expressed a desire to ensure that Firefox is accessible to everyone, but in my experience, Firefox has issues which (for me, at any rate) have discouraged me from continuing to use it.

I hope this helps.

Respectfully,

Curtis Chong


-----Original Message-----
From: GUI-Talk <gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Madison Martin via GUI-Talk
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2022 10:16 PM
To: gui-talk at nfbnet.org
Cc: madison.martin2000 at outlook.com
Subject: [GUI-Talk] searching PDFs and trouble reading them in Firefox

Hi all,
I know that this can be done in Word but is it possible to search within a PDF and if so how do I preform a search? Firefox is my default browser but I find that I often have to switch to Edge to read PDFs as Firefox seems to be really slow at loading them and I don't know why but it's rather annoying. I think I'm using the latest version; is there anything that I could do about this?
Having
to switch to Edge everytime is rather annoying especially when you're already on a site. Using latest versions of JAWS and Windows 11. Thanks for any help that anyone can provide me!
Madison

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