Back when I was a PC user I had found an electronic document scanning program which was free and which did virtually the same tasks; I wish that I could remember it's name now. lol It would take a scanned image and run an OCR on it and produce a document which was easily read with a screen reader.
Thanks for the suggestion Randy On Jan 15, 2013, at 6:37 PM, Steve Holmes <steve.holme...@gmail.com> wrote: > I know this may not be a popular suggestion as it would cost about 3 > or 4 hundred dollars but I use DocuscanPlus from Sarotech and the Mac > App is a free front-end to access the main application. It can of > course, read stuff from a scanner and it can process PDF documents > including those that were originally scanned. It works pretty well. > You can then take the saved output and save it to your computer as a > rich text file in case you need to edit the contents like in a form. > > Hope this helps some. > > On 1/15/13, Randy George <george.ra...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Thanks for the information; from the install it seemed to be fairly >> accessible. Are there any hints I should know of for Preview? I'm running >> up against the same result when opening the document in this application. :) >> Me thinks it is a scanned image. >> >> Randy >> On Jan 15, 2013, at 6:17 PM, Teresa Cochran <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Preview isn't perfect at this point, but it will at least allow you to >>> read text in the documents, whereas Adobe Reader is not accessible with >>> Voiceover on the Mac. >>> >>> HtH, >>> Teresa >>> >>> >>> Slow down; you'll get there faster. >>> >>> On Jan 15, 2013, at 3:14 PM, Chris Bruinenberg <cbrui...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> No adobe reader isn't accessible. >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> On Jan 15, 2013, at 3:12 PM, Randy George <george.ra...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Again, >>>>> >>>>> I just downloaded and installed Adobe Acrobat Reader for IOS 10 Mountain >>>>> Lion so that I could read some docs emailed to me pertaining to a job I >>>>> need to take care of. When I open the file in Adobe (I've set it as my >>>>> default PDF viewer), all I seem to be able to read when I interact with >>>>> the viewer pain is the document name; does this mean that the document >>>>> is simply a scanned image that was converted in to a PDF, or is there >>>>> some magical command that I need to do yet? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks so much for any help, this group is proving to be most helpful. >>>>> >>>>> Randy >>>>> On Jan 15, 2013, at 5:49 PM, Steve Holmes <steve.holme...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I wouldn't want to turn off pitch changes because then you wouldn't be >>>>>> able to identify capital letters. No way in hell do I want to hear >>>>>> "Capital" before every uppercase letter! I've run into that with some >>>>>> other systems and I hate it! I'd much rather have a pitch change. >>>>>> >>>>>> On 1/15/13, Matt Dierckens <matt.dierck...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>> Hi. >>>>>>> Is there a way to turn pitch change off? Its quite annoying. >>>>>>> Thanks. >>>>>>> Matt >>>>>>> Sent from my mac >>>>>>> Twitter: matt692 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 2013-01-14, at 6:24 PM, Devin Prater <d.pra...@me.com> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Ah, that is the disgustingly pitchshifted Samantha. Just record her >>>>>>>> and >>>>>>>> change the pitch with whatever audio editor you use and you'll at >>>>>>>> some >>>>>>>> point come to the sound of that cool voice of yours, unless for're >>>>>>>> using >>>>>>>> some other voice for text fields, but I'm pretty sure its Samantha >>>>>>>> just >>>>>>>> pitched down badly. Se, with the compact voices, pitch change is >>>>>>>> supported >>>>>>>> by the synth, but with premium, they have todo it with bad audio >>>>>>>> pitch >>>>>>>> shifting, not like the way they dowith Aleit and stillusff. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Sent from my iPod with iCloud >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On 14 Jan 2013, at 5:51 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland >>>>>>>> <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> OK, I just had something kind of weird happen, but I'd love! to know >>>>>>>> which >>>>>>>> voice it is that is doing this, as I love it! I switched my voice >>>>>>>> in >>>>>>>> mountain Lion over to Samantha. I used to have it on Alex. Now, >>>>>>>> I'm >>>>>>>> finding something interesting. If I go into contacts, then go to >>>>>>>> create >>>>>>>> another contact card, as I'm vo+right arrowing through the contact >>>>>>>> detail >>>>>>>> fields, yes, Samantha is reading things, but I'm finding that as it >>>>>>>> hits >>>>>>>> different fields like first name last name, etc. there is a male >>>>>>>> voice >>>>>>>> which is speaking. It's not Alex, and it doesn't really sound like >>>>>>>> Fred >>>>>>>> either. I'm wonderring who it is, as that voice is incredible! I >>>>>>>> don't >>>>>>>> have any extra voices installed. This is an o s x thing, so, it's >>>>>>>> whatever that male voice is by default. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I really wanna know though as he is really! good. I remember >>>>>>>> another >>>>>>>> friend after switching to Samantha having this same thing happen, >>>>>>>> and >>>>>>>> really really liking it. 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