Hi Daniel,
If you can ask the people who post them to produce accessible PDF documents, you would be able to read them. Alternatively, you need Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software, such as Kurzweil 1000, to open the PDFs, and this software would convert the document to text. Kurzweil 1000 is quite expensive, at least for the first-time buyer. I'm not sure if OmniPage, another OCR package, converts PDFs to text, but this is much cheaper. Hth, Rod From: Daniel Sweeney [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2014 11:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: reading pdf's with "empty document" Hi, I know this topic has been brought up before, but I did not realize how soon I might need to pay attention to it. I need to research a few pdf documents, but when I download them, trying to read them with Adobe Reader, they appear as "a scanned image requiring OCR or a malformed document". At any rate, I cannot read them with WE, and need some help on what I need to do to be able to access these documents. They do appear on the screen, but I cannot even get WE to read when I roll the mouse over the page either. Any suggestions? Daniel 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.
