Along these lines, a sighted friend of mine was playing with a scanned (picture) article, and he sort of figured out a way to sort of get OCR done using more 'common' things.
Basically, he opened an image using MS Paint, saved it as a .tif file, opened that using MS Document Imaging (comes with Office if I'm correct). Then on the picture menu, there's an option to perform OCR, and save as a Word document (actually gets put into HTML). This isn't the simplest thing, but it actually seems to work not badly at all. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Hallsworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 7:12 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] PDF to Text > Yes, or Kurzweil 1000. > > At 22:12 12/01/2008, you wrote: >>so I need to read it in Open book? >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Chris Hallsworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: <[email protected]> >>Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 4:07 PM >>Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] PDF to Text >> >> >> > Hi, some PDFs are in fact scanned images. An OCR programme is >> > required if you want to read the scanned images. Hope that helps. >> > >> > At 05:18 12/01/2008, you wrote: >> >>Interesting.. >> >>Well are there some pdf's out there that can't be converted to text? >> >>Like >> >>today a friend of mine has his house up for sale and I got the pdf and >> >>I >> >>had >> >>that irritating adobie installed from that awful site as it was in the >> >>control panel and when I opened that pdf well adobie said graphic and >> >>as >> >>far >> >>as I could obtain any info on the screne it didn't tell me anything >> >>about >> >>the pdf in question nor did it convert it to text.. >> >>So I poked around in adobie's menus and thinking I didn't set up the >> >>accessibility part right when it was installed so saw that read text >> >>aloud >> >>choice in the menus and did the hot key for it and all it said in some >> >>weird >> >>voice was, blank... >> >>So guess I'll never know 'bout that sale of that house,lol hehehe >> >> >> >>Patricia >> >> >> >>----- Original Message ----- >> >>From: "Rick Justice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>To: <[email protected]> >> >>Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 11:07 PM >> >>Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] PDF to Text >> >> >> >> >> >> > Hi Patricia, >> >> > The adobe reader is just that, a reader of pdf documents. >> >> > PDF TO TEXT, is a program for converting pdf documents to text. >> >> > Adobe reader will also convert pdf to text. >> >> > HTH, >> >> > Richard Q. Justice >> >> > www.blind-computing.com >> >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> >> > From: "Patricia Dunbar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> > To: "BC" <[email protected]> >> >> > Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 12:02 AM >> >> > Subject: [Blind-Computing] PDF to Text >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >> What does that program pdf to text do? >> >> >> I mean I know what it does, I just wonder if the Adobie is for >> >> >> reading >> >> >> pdf >> >> >> docs and this other program converts it to text then why would I >> >> >> need >> >> >> Adobie? >> >> >> >> >> >> Patricia >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: >> >> >> http://www.jaws-users.com >> >> >> Address for the list archives: >> >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >> >> To post to this group, send email to >> >> >> [email protected] >> >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to >> >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the >> >> >> 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