Here's another free program
After a few years since version 2.1, Jamal Mazrui has now updated the
program with two substantive enhancements that broaden the range of PDFs
from which text can be obtained. If a PDF is locked with a password that
you know, type it in the edit box that has been added to the main dialog.
If the PDF is primarily an image format without textual characters, e.g.,
the result of a scan, mark the new checkbox so that optical character
recognition (OCR) is performed rather than the usual text extraction
techniques. Google Tesseract technology is used for this, which is
currently the best free OCR available.
Note that OCR should be used as a last resort, since it takes much longer
and is more error prone. Essentially, PDF to TXT now incorporates the
PDF2OCR package, which has been available at
http://EmpowermentZone.com/pdf2ocr.zip
--- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Posey" <[email protected]>
To: "Pastor Gil Pries" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 6:50 AM
Subject: RE: PDF documents and the mouse
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
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