If you try this service with your document, please report back to the
list. I've used them before but they couldn't help me with files that
were graphics. I'm talking about the kind that you open in Acrobat
and the message Empty Document appears.
Betsy
At 03:47 AM 5/2/2010, you wrote:
Also, there was a service you could use free of charge as well,
www.spokentext.net they provide conversion from PDF/Doc/RTF/TXT
format to others.
Mo.
Betsy Whitney, Dolphin Press wrote:
Joanne,
There are at least two kinds of PDF formats. If the file is
actually a picture of something like a bank statement, what is on
the paper is actually a graphic, and it sounds like that's what you
have. Some people have had some success with scanning software but
generally those programs require a lot of cleanup to the scanned
file. I run a transcription business and have had 14 years of
experience with such files.
We generally ask the sender to provide us a different format of the
file such as .doc, .rtf, or even .txt. Some of the software out
there now is fairly good, but we have not found it to be reliable
enough for many things because of the varied use of fonts and strange symbols.
The other kind of pdf is one that was created in some sort of
wordprocessor and then made into a pdf. You can tell if the file
you have is one of those by going to your File Menu in Acrobat
Reader and check to see if there is a Save as Text option. You can
then save it as a text file and open it in your preferred wordprocessor.
I have had varying degrees of success with copying a pdf to my
clipboard and pasting it into Word, but if you have a graphic to
start with, that will not help.
There are probably others on this list who are much more versed in
the technical workings of all of this, and I sure hope they have
some suggestions for you that I can use.
Betsy
At 01:02 AM 5/2/2010, you wrote:
Some of my very important documents have been sent to me from
places like banks and legal places, but they are in picture PDF
form. I did look on the programs page and thought the PDF to OCR
would be perfect, but when extracted it shows a list of 8 things
and I have no idea what any of these items does. There isn't a
help file, and there doesn't seem to be menus for conversion or
places where you can select a PDF file and folder to browse, etc.
I don't even see it in programs in start menu or on desktop. It
simply unzips unrecognizable folders but I don't feel it's
completely installed.
If someone has a solution for this or even another easier program
so Jaws can read these image files, please let me know.
Thanks.
Joanne
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