Hi dwight, It could be that the PDF is nothing more than an image of the pages. naturally, if your wife is sighted, she will be able to see the image. to retreive the text and convert it into a readable format, you will need a program such as PDF to OCR, which will attempt to extract the text from the image.
Hope this helps, Aiden ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dwight Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 2:09 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] jaws reading PDF > Hello List: > > Ever since I began using jaws 9 I have not been able to open attachments > so I save them to my documents and then open them there. Today I > received a PDF attachment and after saving it to my documents and > opening it jaws says empty document. My wife says the text is on the > screen. Why isn't jaws reading it? It is 17 pages long. I am using > adobe 7. If anyone has any solutions or suggestions, I would be very > grateful. > Dwight Johnson > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Visit the Blind Computing home page at: > http://www.blind-computing.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php > If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
