The FreeOCR program at http://www.paperfile.net/ will OCR a scanned image PDF. I haven't tried it with Window-Eyes but it did work with another screen reader. It does take a long time to load and it didn't start speaking, for me anyway, at first. But I did load a PDF in and then did the OCR and it would read it. Might not be the most accessible but I think you can make it work for what you want it to do. And it's free.
Jerry -----Original Message----- From: Pastor Gil Pries [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 8:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: PDF documents and the mouse I wish there was an inexpensive way of extracting the text from an image in a PDF document. I can't aford Kurzweil and I get this stuff all the time. Pastor Gil On 9/8/2010 6:21 AM, Russ Kiehne wrote: > I just ran across a problem with pdf documents. I downloaded a user > manual for a product I would like to buy. The problem is, it's a secured > pdf document and I cannot read it. Why do they do things like this? > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pastor Gil Pries" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 10:08 AM > Subject: Re: PDF documents and the mouse > > >> Is your adobe reader set to the accessibility settings? >> If it is, you won't need the mouse pad. >> >> >> Pastor Gil >> >> On 9/7/2010 9:57 AM, shannon wrote: >>> Good afternoon, >>> I have to deal with more and more PDF docs. While the brows mode is very >>> useful in finding info written in the documents with the find feature. I >>> have a problem. >>> These documents I have to deal with are not very well laid out. Why can >>> the mouse not be used in adobe? I could do much better interpreting of >>> my particular docs if I could use the mouse to move directly up and down >>> once the text was found if the mouse could follow the brows curser. >>> As it is the mouse only reads the top and bottom of the adobe window and >>> not the doc itself. >>> Am I just missing something? >>> Thanks for any suggestions >>> Shannon >>> >>> 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. >>> >>> GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You >>> can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. >> 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. >> >> GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You >> can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. >> > 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. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can > manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. > > > 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. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. 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. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
