Hi,
Sorry, to start off with bad news here. Most likely, the pdf is a
scanned image or 'picture' of an original document. because it has been
scanned, JAWS cannot read it. It is unlikely that it will convert to
text via Adobe Reader. You probably need an OCR program to 'print' it
or OCR it into text. Something like Open Book, Kurzweil 1000, or an
off-the-shelf OCR package like FineReader or omniPage will convert the
image into usable text - if allowed to do so, that is, if printing
permissions were not also restricted. Sighted folk do not always
realise that pictures and images can't be read by our screen-readers.
OCR is pretty necessary, unless the document author agrees to supply you
with an accessible version.
Now some good news. pdf2txt, which is a free utility that does do OCR
as well with the Google Tesseract OCR program. Find it plus
documentation, at:
http://www.jaws-users.com/programs/
download and install it , about 24 megabytes. Your mileage may vary
thereafter; but it's better than nothing.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Hubley" <[email protected]>
To: "Jaws users" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 12:48 AM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] PDF empty document
Hi everyone,
I was sent a PDF document by my school principal. I entered to have
the document prepared. After Jaws said, 100%, I heard, "Empty
document."
Can anyone help me out here? I have received this message before.
Thanks,
Russ
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