If you have Open Book you'll find that you'll seldom use Convenient
OCR. You can read scanned and secure pdf's in Open Book as well as any
other scanned material larger than a banner (convenient OCR may be
better for small scans). You might want to make a short cut key for
Open Book (I use O). To access scanned material just hit Control P and
your printers will pop up..Open Book is your Freedom printer. Just
click on the name and your doc will open in Open Book. JAWS will now
work in Open Book, so you don't need to suppress JAWS. Open Book has a
really good help section. Just use F6 to toggle. You may need no
training to use it.
Mike B. did a marvelous job of listing the preparations JAWS users need
to make for Adobe DC (latest). You will need to use the accessibility
wizard and to uncheck some items in the preferences tree. In adobe,
just hit control K and the list will pop up. Go to enhanced scecurity
and uncheck protected view. In the accessibility wizard you will also
want to uncheck opening the pdf's in the browser. I particularly like
reading a whole document, not page by page - even long documents. Most
newer computers are fast enough to load even a 70 or so page pdf with
some ease.
Tehre are of course more detailed instructions to give but you may be
aable to complete your pdf orientation with the above suggestions.)
On 7/22/2017 8:17 PM, Michele Thredgold wrote:
Hi everyone. I'm still getting my head around JAWS 18. How do you access
Convenient OCR? Also, I purchased OpenBook a few months ago and am still on the
waiting list for training. Can anyone give me a few pointers to get started
with PDFS?
Thanks
Michele
----- Original Message -----
From: Adrian Spratt <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Wednesday, 12 July 2017 5:56 am
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Jaws 18 and PDF?
Hi, Vicky. I'll answer with a qualified yes. I'm assuming that JAWS 16 doesn't
have the Convenient OCR feature, but I could be wrong. With convenient OCR,
JAWS makes it easy to convert PDF files. The typical sequence of keystrokes is
JAWS key+spacebar, then o for OCR, then d for document. You wait a while, not
long at all for short documents and maybe a few minutes for longer ones, and
then the text of the PDF file is displayed in a new window.
If you can live with those steps, the Convenient OCR feature is well
worthwhile. I use it all the time.
-----Original Message-----
From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Vicky Vaughan
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 3:23 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Jaws 18 and PDF?
Hi List, I am wondering if it is worth spending the money to upgrade to 18 from
the latest 16. If you say that it can read PDFs without going through
recognition steps, then, it will be worth it for me.
Please let me know.
Sincerely, Vicky Vaughan
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