Jo, I have often found that when I open a PDF document and it just sits there that closing the Adobe Reader and then opening it again causes the document to then read normally. Of course this shouldn't happen, and I don't know whose fault it is, but re-opening seems to work for me. Also, it probably makes sense to make sure you have the latest version, but you probably do if you have Adobe Reader XI.
Do you have any other OCR programs, Kurzweil 1000, FineReader or OmniPage? All three will convert a scanned PDF document without requiring that you print it out and scan paper. Do you have questions about specific settings? I usually have the entire document read, but there are cases when reading by page works better such as when you need to print one page or if there is a table of contents with links to jump to the right section. I usually let the reading order be determined by the document because sometimes that results in tables being preserved so I can use the Window-Eyes table navigation features. However, there is some PDF creation package that marks up documents so that one gets one word per line. Then, switching to reading top to bottom, left to right, or whatever it is, causes those documents to be presented better. Usually "top to bottom, Left to Right" goes faster as well, and if you don't care about tables or table of content links, you might find that to be a better default. Best regards, Steve Jacobson On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 09:10:00 -0600, Jo Taliaferro via Talk wrote: > I'm really frustrated with pdf documents. I use WE 9, Windows 7 >64-bit on a laptop, have Adobe Reader xi and I'm not sure of the correct >settings for reading without sight. I've tried using the setup assistant >which helps some but I also realize that scanned documents won't read at >all. Do I need Acrobat.com or not and how might I convert a document or >newsletter into a Word document for Office 2010? >Adobe Reader often says, "Alert, document being processed!" And never does >anything but sit there! I don't know if there are helpful apps for this or >something else but I should be able to at least read the text even with some >images in the document, right? I mean, if it's not a scanned document. >I thank you for help from snowy MN, >Jo Taliaferro >_______________________________________________ >Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author >and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. >For membership options, visit >http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/steve.jacobson% 40visi.com. >For subscription options, visit >http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com >List archives can be found at >http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
