Hi,
To read scanned PDFs, you can try a little niffty program called PDF2OCR. It
will help you open mostly books that are scanned into PDF format (Google
books come into mind).
This is a free program developed by a blind programmer, found at
http://www.nonvisualdevelopment.org, click on PowerBasic link and you will
get its download.
As for commercial offerings, I use Abbyy Fine Reader -- this one can even
read images such as GIF, jpg or png formats as long as it can find text. You
can also use Open Book which does the same thing.
Cheers,
Ishe
He who will not learn from anyone but himself has a fool for a teacher.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joyce Espy" <jespy...@gmail.com>
To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 3:24 PM
Subject: [Blind-Computing] Scanned PDF Documents
Hi everyone. Is there any way I could possibly read a scanned PDF
document? It's an image, so it isn't showing up when I save it to text or
pull it into Google docs and try plain html. I'm thinking there's not
much
I can do but I'd like to know from those who are more tech savvy than me.
Thanks.
Joyce Espy
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