I think that Microsoft document Imaging comes with all versions of office but I understand that it is not always installed by default. If it is not installed on your system you need to run your Office Setup program again and make sure that all the Office Tools features are selected for installation. I don't think you have to re-install all your applications, just select the Office tools bit.
Once installed you should find a folder in your start programs Microsoft Office and then Tools where there are some very useful programs. You should also find a virtual printer installed on your system called Microsoft Document Writer. This is the printer you print to. It will create a file with a tif extension. As I say Microsoft document Imaging should load this file automatically and from there you can run OCR and then send text to word. I have done this many times with PDF documents and personally I believe the results are better than Kurzweil though admittedly using Kurzweil is smoother with automatic OCR. Regards David griffith -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan & Terrie Robbins Sent: Tuesday, 12 January 2010 15:24 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Converting Password Protected PDF Textbooks David What options of MS Word is this option valid for? I'm using Office 2000 Al -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of David Griffith Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 9:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Converting Password Protected PDF Textbooks Use the Microsoft Office Document Image Printer. Print the PDF to this virtual Printer and the resulting tiff file should open in Microsoft document Imaging. Go the tools menu and perform OCR. Then go the tools menu again and select send text to word. Regards David Griffith -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Sent: Tuesday, 12 January 2010 09:25 To: [email protected] Subject: [Blind-Computing] Converting Password Protected PDF Textbooks Hi My college is trying to convert all their online classes to PDF textbooks that can be down loaded directly from the class website. This would be great accept the type of PDF books they are using are Image PDF not Text based PDF. They recommended I buy open book or kurzwel to convert the documents. I do not have that type of money on hand. Besides the PDF documents are password protected. I don't know of any OCR that will work with protected PDF. So, presuming the college cannot find another option, How do I deal with these PDF Textbooks. They are even worse then the regular print one's. At least the OCR software I have can scan those. The person at the college is doing their best but they appear to have limited resources. Well, any way I would appreciate any ideas on how to over come the document conversion issue. God bless, Mark For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4762 (20100111) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4762 (20100111) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4763 (20100112) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4763 (20100112) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4764 (20100112) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4764 (20100112) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4765 (20100112) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4765 (20100112) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
