Hello Michele, After you open the PDF document, press Insert-Spacebar, you will hear a click, then press the letter O and after that letter D to scan the entire document. It will open another windows into which, dependeng on the size of the document, soon will appear the test. From there you can copy it and paste into a text editor or word processor.
Open Book will open PDF documents directly, just open the program, go to the File menu to open a d ocument or press Control-O and open it from there. Regards, Humberto -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Michele Thredgold Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2017 7:17 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Jaws 18 and PDF? Hi everyone. I'm still getting my head around JAWS 18. How do you access Convenient OCR? Also, I purchased OpenBook a few months ago and am still on the waiting list for training. Can anyone give me a few pointers to get started with PDFS? Thanks Michele ----- Original Message ----- From: Adrian Spratt <adr...@adrianspratt.com> To: "jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com" <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Date: Wednesday, 12 July 2017 5:56 am Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Jaws 18 and PDF? > > > Hi, Vicky. I'll answer with a qualified yes. I'm assuming that JAWS 16 doesn't have the Convenient OCR feature, but I could be wrong. With convenient OCR, JAWS makes it easy to convert PDF files. The typical sequence of keystrokes is JAWS key+spacebar, then o for OCR, then d for document. You wait a while, not long at all for short documents and maybe a few minutes for longer ones, and then the text of the PDF file is displayed in a new window. > > If you can live with those steps, the Convenient OCR feature is well worthwhile. I use it all the time. > > -----Original Message----- > From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Vicky Vaughan > Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 3:23 PM > To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > Subject: [JAWS-Users] Jaws 18 and PDF? > > Hi List, I am wondering if it is worth spending the money to upgrade to 18 from the latest 16. If you say that it can read PDFs without going through recognition steps, then, it will be worth it for me. > > Please let me know. > > Sincerely, Vicky Vaughan > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
