Hi Scorpio; Thank you so much for this excellent information. I had no idea that MS had its own programs for scanning & imaging, until now! This email is definitely going to be saved. Thanks much, take care. Mike
----- Original Message ----- From: "Scorpio Forever" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 7:16 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Scanned PDF Documents You could use Microsoft Office to scan and read the page. Go into your start menu, then into the Microsoft Office sub-menu, then into tools, and you'll find two pieces of software there you can use. The first is Microsoft Office Document Scanning. You can use this to print your documents, then scan it into your computer using a scanner. Once scanned, it will open up in the second program, that being Microsoft Office Document Imaging. Once in that program, you can send the text to Microsoft Word, and it will perform OCR on the image, and send any text it finds to Microsoft Word for you to read. If you don't have a scanner and printer, you might be able to open up the PDF document using the Image program, then sending the OCR text to Word that way, but I can't remember if you can open up other formats other than TIFF formats with the Microsoft Office Document Imaging program, but, it's worth a try. Scorpio 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/
