Brilliant! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Michele ----- Original Message ----- From: Humberto Rodriguez <s...@hrfinancial.com> To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Date: Sunday, 23 July 2017 9:11 pm Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Jaws 18 and PDF? > > > 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/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
