Hi In JAWS 14 and 15, there is a feature called Convenient OCR which may help with some scanned documents. It does optical character recognition on the current screen or window. You invoke it by pressing and releasing JAWSkey+spacebar. Then press o for Convenient OCR. Next press s if you want the current screen processed or w if you want the entire current window processed. When it's finished processing, it will say JAWS. You then can arrow around with the JAWS cursor, which is active, to read what it was able to process. Pressing any other key besides the arrow keys will take you out of Convenient OCR mode.
The results from Convenient OCR are not as good as those from OpenBook. I said it may help because how good the OCR turns out varies depending on the window or screen you're trying to read. I've seen it process a Window in 20 to 30 seconds. I've seen it take a long time to finish and some instances where it never did finish before I got tired of waiting for it. For some screens, the results are pretty readable. On others you may only get enough of the document to determine what is its jist. And on others, there may be nothing readable. Hopefully FS will be able to improve this feature in future releases. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Judy Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 06:47 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Help opening scanned pdf documents Mike, Janet and all, I will keep this link Mike for future reference to see if it would work. Not all of us have scanners, and not everyone has Open Book. I have never been ab le to read a scanned document and have specifically asked people when it was possible to send me a word document. But in Janet's case, she needs to do this now, not when she gets a program that will do it for her. It is truly maddening and I encounter this all the time at work, when human resources or someone sends me scanned things. I ask for word documents, but they don't comply. If there any hope for the future for Jaws to be able to handle these kinds of things? Thanks. Judy & Tallie -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike B. Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 8:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Help opening scanned pdf documents Hi Janet, Try the link below: http://www.convertfiles.com/ Take care. Mike This email was sent from my, iBarstool. ----- Original Message ----- From: Janet Session To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 3:38 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Help opening scanned pdf documents Hi Mike, I tried my trusty Simpo pdf to word but the document converted to blank pages. Janet Session Email: [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike B." <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2014 7:12 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Help opening scanned pdf documents > Hi Janet, > > What kind of help are you seeking? What program to use or something else? > Or, you opening a PDF file & hearing empty document? > Take care. > Mike > This email was sent from my, iBarstool. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Janet Session > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2014 3:52 PM > Subject: [JAWS-Users] Help opening scanned pdf documents > > > Hi listers, > Requesting help on opening scanned pdf docs. > Janet Session > Email: > [email protected] > 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/ 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/
