Use the Microsoft Office Document Image Printer. Print the PDF to this virtual Printer and the resulting tiff file should open in Microsoft document Imaging. Go the tools menu and perform OCR. Then go the tools menu again and select send text to word.
Regards David Griffith -----Original Message----- From: blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:blind-computing-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Mark Sent: Tuesday, 12 January 2010 09:25 To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: [Blind-Computing] Converting Password Protected PDF Textbooks Hi My college is trying to convert all their online classes to PDF textbooks that can be down loaded directly from the class website. This would be great accept the type of PDF books they are using are Image PDF not Text based PDF. They recommended I buy open book or kurzwel to convert the documents. I do not have that type of money on hand. Besides the PDF documents are password protected. I don't know of any OCR that will work with protected PDF. So, presuming the college cannot find another option, How do I deal with these PDF Textbooks. They are even worse then the regular print one's. At least the OCR software I have can scan those. The person at the college is doing their best but they appear to have limited resources. Well, any way I would appreciate any ideas on how to over come the document conversion issue. God bless, Mark For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4762 (20100111) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4762 (20100111) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4763 (20100112) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4763 (20100112) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
