To upload a PDF file, go to the OCR website
http://www.newocr.com/
Then go to the only unlabelled button which is immediately followed
by a button labelled as "send file."
Press Enter on that unlabelled button which brings up the usual
controls for locating a folder on your computer and the file you wish
to upload.
After locating the desired PDF file, select the Open button.
You will then be returned to the webpage for the OCR service.
You will find the path and file name of your selected PDF file listed
just above the unlabelled button you used to locate and open that file.
Now, press Enter on the "Send File" button.
Uploading takes some time if your file is fairly large. If you have
Window Eyes progress indicator turned on then you will hear the
progress for uploading.
When uploading is complete, you will have a webpage with a
non-editable text box containing the text of the first page of your
PDF file. You can cut and paste this text into another application as you wish.
If there are multiple pages to your PDF document, you will find a
dropdown list of all the pages listed by number.
When you wish to get the next page, select it from the dropdown and
press enter on the "Repeat Recognition" button.
Just repeat these steps to get through all the pages of your document.
I have occasionally found the service to lose track of where I am in
a multiple-page document. In this case, I had to again upload the PDF
file and use the page dropdown list to continue where I left off.
HTH,
Jeff
At 12:32 PM 10/29/2011, you wrote:
how do you upload the file?
Thanks,
Jed
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Samco [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 3:21 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: pdf files
Hi, Jed,
There is a free online OCR service at:
http://www.newocr.com/
You can upload that PDF file to the service and it will download text. There
is an unlabelled button or 2 on the page but you should be able to figure it
out. Also, if the PDF has multiple pages then you need to select each page
from a drop down list and use the link that says "rescan" or something like
that to get the new page you selected. If you have additional questions you
can email me.
HTH,
Jeff
At 10:18 AM 10/29/2011, you wrote:
>Jeb,
>
>This is a scanned image file. There is no text for Window-Eyes to grab
>which is why it's saying empty document. It will look normal to
>someone who is sighted as it is a picture of the document which is how
>Window-Eyes sees it.
>
>You need an OCR program such as Kurzweil 1000 or Open Bookk to convert
>the document. There may be other OCR programs that I'm not familiar
>with but this should get you started.
>
>I've Used Kurzweil 1000 to convert one of these documents before and it
>does work.
>
>Karyn Campbell, Illinois USA, [email protected] Using WE 7.5.1 on
>Toshiba laptop running Vista home premium SP 1 32 bit with Office 2007
>and IE 8 and Kurzweil 1000 11.3 along with Asus netbook running XP home
>32 bit with Office 2007 and IE 7 with Microsoft Security Essentials on
>both machines.
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>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jed Barton [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jed Barton
>Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 12:06 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: pdf files
>
>Hey guys,
>Wondering if anyone has a solution for this.
>A firend of mine sent me a pdf file, that was scanned.
>When i open it, it says blank document. I know there is text in there.
>Is there some how some way that the text can be extracted from it,
>cause window-eyes isn't seeing it.
>Thoughts?
>
>Thanks,
>Jed
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