Ed, Two thoughts, which may or may not help.
First, I am now in the habit of automatically converting every PDF file to text with OmniPage. I don't know how this application compares to FS's Convenient OCR. I do find that it works on just about every PDF file I receive, though obviously with varying degrees of accuracy. I doubt that printing out a document, then performing OCR on it with OmniPage would improve things. Second, yesterday I came across a program that converts JPG files to PDF that I could then convert to text. The program is NCH's Pixillion Image converter. It's worth explaining how it came to me. I received three JPG files that I needed to access right away. I saved the first to a documents folder, then pressed the applications key and arrowed down through the options. One was simply to "convert," and I clicked on it. Almost immediately, the file was converted to PDF. Then I got a message from NCH offering to sell the non-trial version for what it claimed was a sale price. It was clever of NCH to work with MS to lure a consumer in like this. I don't like NCH's sales practices, but their software is good. So I went through with the purchase, costing about $30 US. However you find Pixillion, it might be worth considering for handling image files. I haven't done any more testing. It may be, for example, that Pixillion can convert directly from JPG to text. I'm also guessing that it can convert the type of PDF image file you describe to a format JAWS can handle. But I can't confirm either possibility. I'd be interested if other JAWS users have experience with Pixillion or another JPG/image file converter. -----Original Message----- From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Marquette via Jfw Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 9:36 AM To: The Jaws for Windows support list. Cc: Ed Marquette Subject: Pernicious PDF Listers: I'm wondering if anyone on the list has figured out what I have found to be an increasingly prevalent vexing problem I am not talking about PDF files which consist of pictures only. Then, JAWS simply says "empty document." I've used JAWS's "convenient" OCR, and it works pretty well. I think it is using some form of the OmniPage OCR engine. The OCR functionality, however, is powerless against what I'm calling the Pernicious PDF. When it opens, JAWS will read the title (the title in the document, not the title of the file), and it may read a few other fragments. For the most part, however, JAWS just says "Graphic." So far, the only way to beat this, that I've found, is to print, scan back in, and run the OCR. Sent from my Yoga IdeaPad I. Edward Marquette Universal Phone: 408.692.5640 Mobile: 816.812.0088 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/20150520/7de27d82/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
