I know. I figured out for sure that it is a scanned image. But, I don't have an OCR program here at work. Thanks to all who responded.
Sandra Fouts Phone Counselor Arkansas Attorney General's Office 323 Center Street, Ste 200 Little Rock, AR 501-371-2303 Fax 501-682-8118 -----Original Message----- From: Steve Jacobson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 10:33 AM To: GW-INFO List Subject: Re: Adobe 8 and window-eyes Sandra, The problem is in the way the document was created and not your settings. It is most likely text has been scanned and stored as images in your PDF file. The text appears on the screen but is not accessible to your screen reader. Certain packages turn print images into PDF's, but this confuses people because they think all PDF's are accessible and these are not. The text looks just fine on the screen. However, one can't search such documents, either. If the document was prepared on a computer, there are a number of ways for the document's creator to get it into an accessible PDF document. However, if you are stuck with documents like this as they are, some of the OCR software out there will turn such documents into something that you can read. Both Kurzweil 1000 and Omnipage will do this. Best regards, Steve Jacobson On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:55:25 -0500, Sandra Fouts wrote: >Hi. I now have Adobe 8.1, or something like that, on my work computer. >One of our I T guys thinks he got the accessibility features set. I >just tried to open a doccument and it wsays the doccument is empty. So >what do I need to look at to make sure everything is checked or >unchecked for me? Thanks. >Sandra Fouts >Phone Counselor >Arkansas Attorney General's Office >323 Center Street, Ste 200 >Little Rock, AR >501-371-2303 >Fax 501-682-8118 >If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original >sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and >your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending >your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. >All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search >form at the bottom of the page. >If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] and include leave gw-info in the body >of the message. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
