Of course it would depend on how much your employer wants to spend on software. I think Kurzweil is around $1000.
-----Original Message----- From: Rod Hutton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 10:21 PM To: DebandCori; gw-info Subject: Re: adobe, jpeg files, and window-eyes Hi, I just tried opening a PDF which I had scanned into that format because I wanted to keep a copy of the image of the document and then throw the original piece of paper away. When I open the file in Adobe Reader X, and choose "infer reading order from document," I get the message: "Alert: Empty document." Now, this is because it's just an image. If I wanted to read the text which I know the image contains, I can use Kurzweil 1000, which is my scanning and optical character recognition software package for the purpose of scanning and reading printed documents, like my postal mail, etc.. It does also have the ability to open PDF files and other files containing images as well as text files, like MS Word documents. What Kurzweil would do to a PDF file which only contains an image would be to "recognize it", just as it would if it were trying to analyze an image of a printed page of text which had been scanned on a scanner. Having said this, it is possible, when producing a PDF document which contains text, to save it as a PDF with a "text stream." When you open these PDF files, Window-Eyes can read them just as if they were web pages; therefore, they respond to "browse mode" navigation hot keys, including links for opening other documents, as well as moving to the different parts of the same document by clicking the links in the file's Table of Contents, etc.. As for JPeg files, I can't remember if Kurzweil can open these directly in the same way as it does PDF files, but one could always print a JPeg file out on paper, and then scan the image on one's scanner, and see how Kurzweil does in analyzing it. So, to sum up, as far as PDF files go, my guess is that you are trying to open a PDF which contains only an image, and so you need some software to recognize the text in the image. hth, Rod On 5/07/13 8:05 PM, DebandCori wrote: > At work I am running window-eyes 7.5.2.0. I am having difficulty with > reading documents which are pdf, jpeg, and other types of documents > which seem to be pictures of words or encased in some sort of frames which the > system does not recognize. What happens is that it acts like there is > nothing there. Adobe x and adobe reader are there and enabled. > It just seems like there is something proprietary which is blocking my > ability to access the material. > I did get office communicator to work for the most part, that is like > instant messenger. > But I don't know how to do a lot of things in that environment either. > Anyone have any good suggestions for me. > > My email is: > > [email protected] > > deb Ver Steeg > 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.
