Is Adobe allowed to save the pdf to text? You will likely lose all
comumn format information, but that might be better than nothing. then
you could (as I have just suggested) reinput your selection into a
Microsoft word document. Or, I've never tried a pdf in Excel or similar
but if you have such a creature then you could try pasting into that.
Microsoft word, however, should see and recognise the format of the
columns information even after they apparently have disappeared from the
text version of the file.
The Adobe Reader is free and basic, and just isn't cut out for reading
complex tables, especially where little or no attention was paid to
accessibility in the creation of the pdf file.
Another avenue? After conversion into text, the file could be converted
into HTML, which might assist Re: formatting. there are paid and free
text to html converters for that job. the one I have inserts an extra
line space between every line. However, if you google text to html (or
similar) you may come across some interesting softwares.
----- Original Message -----
From: "J.Cyr" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 10:19 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Mac Preview /Adobe/Jaws Problems?
Dear Flor,
We did try saving as a print file, in a couple of different ways and
with at least one other programme in addition to Adobe. (I handed
that bit over to a technician so I don't have the details.) The Adobe
produced the no spaces version, and that on the machine not running
Jaws. The other software did work in one sense, it produced words and
lines, but unfortunately the original document is formatted in two
columns and they were merged with horrible consequences to the sense
and usefulness of the document.
I did try raw stream, it produced exactly the same effect as left to
right, top to bottom, one word one line.
I don't know if an OCR approach was tried on the other machine (I'll
check, thank you), I didn't, and I don't have a good OCR programme, or
not one that saves to text anyway. Thanks for the thoughts, ... any
other spring to mind?
Joy
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