Andre's way is an oldie but a goody. I used it back before AR was accessible; but Bill is right, it won't do a thing for an image file. Even when it works, it's not the most attractive document around.
Ted -----Original Message----- From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill White via Jfw Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 10:31 PM To: The Jaws for Windows support list. Cc: Bill White Subject: Re: PDF documents That's not going to work in this case, because all she is getting in the document are graphics. She may need to convert the document with OCR software such as OpenBook. she can also use the services of RoboBraille if she can upload the document. I'll include the link for her here. http://robobraille.org/ Bill White [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andre Jarreau via Jfw" <[email protected]> To: "'The Jaws for Windows support list.'" <[email protected]> Cc: "Andre Jarreau" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 8:25 PM Subject: RE: PDF documents > Another possible way. I did this yesterday. Opened a 245 page PDF. Then > I > selected all using control-A. Then copied and pasted directly into a > blank > Word doc. Then saved the Word Doc under the book title name. Now it > opens > in Word remarkably fast and reads very well. It might be searchable. > Hope > this helps. > > I use latest J16, Office and Word 2010 on my I5 Dell laptop. > > Best > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ann Byrne > via > Jfw > Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 8:57 PM > To: The Jaws for Windows support list. > Cc: Ann Byrne > Subject: Re: PDF documents > > If you have JAWS 16, have it convert the document for you. Press > insert-spacebar, then the letter o for optical character recognition, > then d for document, and let it run. When JAWS has finished, the > document is not only readable, but it can be copied and saved into > another form, such as Word or text. > > good luck! > At 08:30 PM 7/15/2015, you wrote: >>My office has a program that is supposed to convert pdf documents to >>searchable text. The issue is that my sighted colleague said that she >>could do a search of this one large document and find different words in > it. >>However JAWS just read "graphic" Graphic" and gave me some numbers of the >>graphics. I'm wondering what is happening here, does anyone have any > ideas? >>Thanks! >> >>Bar >> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 11946 (20150715) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 11946 (20150715) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ 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
