if you have either Open Book or K1000, they both have a virtual printer. With the document on screen, go into the "Print" menu and in the list of available printers, you should see which ever virtual printer you have. Select it and hit the "print" button just like you would when you ordinarily print a document. The program will perform OCR on the document, just like it would if you scanned a printed page. Your results may vary and you may get gibberish, or you may get enough recognition to at least get the gist of what the document contains. I believe that later versions of K1000 will perform this OCR without having to use the KESI virtual printer.
Andy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan & Terrie Robbins Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 4:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] program and help needed for converting image PDFtoOCR file JoAnne, I'm not entirely clear on your issue but think it is similar to the issue I face when I get my gas & electric bill via PDF attachment. The only way I know to convert a PDF image or picture that actually contains text is to print it out on your printer and then scan the printed version back into your computer which will use your OCR program. In my case it is OmniPage version 15. I know this is a pain but that is the way I have found to get around it when needed. Maybe others have something more creative? Al -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Joanne Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 7:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [JAWS-Users] program and help needed for converting image PDF toOCR file 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 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/
