[NABS-L] Question about Accommodations

[Ignasi Cambra]

Julia,

This may not be the most conventional way to deal with the issue, but lately I have been dealing with inaccessible pdf files via the Chatgpt Advanced Data Analysis beta. It wasn't originally designed for this, but it is very good at using OCR and either doing very thorough summaries of the contents of each page or simply giving the entire text to you. You will need a Chatgpt paid account for this to work properly. I have also worked with pdf files on claude.ai, but can't remember if it supports OCR or not.

Hope this helps!

IC
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> On Sep 14, 2023, at 17:29, Julia LaGrand via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am a freshman in college and have a question about reasonable accommodations. I am a music student and a lot of the texts I need are not already available in accessible formats. Students are reading scans from a variety of textbooks. My inclination is to simply perform OCR on these scans (I typically use VoiceDream Reader), but I do fear that I will miss some things this way. I've talked to Disability support, but there only suggestion is that they could run OCR for me, which doesn't really change the situation. I'm curious what people would recommend. To be clear, class readings may come from three different books per class period, so other students are not expected to get the actual books.
> 
> Thank you so much for the help in advance,
> Julia
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