Hi Adrian, The first two things did not work for copying the PDF document. I did try the Jaws OCR and that worked. The only thing is you got the shortcut key wrong or I should say you left one part out. First of all to use the Jaws OCR you have to press the jaws key + spacebar then after you hear the beep then press the letter O. Then press the letter D. Then you have to wait for quite a long time for Jaws to come back up speaking with the PDF document. Mr. Ed
-----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adrian Spratt Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2017 11:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] How to copy a PDF file? I know about this problem. sometimes placing focus at the top of the file and pressing shift-control-end (the select to end of document command) works better. However, probably the more reliable, though more time-consuming way, is to take advantage of the JAWS OCR feature by pressing JAWS key+spacebar, release, then d for document. Alt-tab to the window where OCR is being performed. JAWS will verbalize when the operation is complete. Since it can take a while, I usually do some other task and come back to it. When OCR completes, control+a will work. I first paste the results into an empty Notepad file. The reason is that the OCR results often appear as tables, which confuses MS Word no end. Notepad eliminates the tables but somehow preserves the text sequence. I then select and copy the entire Notepad file and paste that result into a Word document. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mr. Ed Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2017 11:17 AM To: JAWS-Users-List 2 Subject: [JAWS-Users] How to copy a PDF file? Hi Jaws Group, I have a PDF file that I have opened in Acobat Reader DC. I did the ctrl + A to highlight the text but it only does this for the first page when I go and paste it in word. Is there a way I can select the whole PDF file and paste it in word for reading with Jaws? Mr. Ed For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
