If it's a real PDF file and not a scanned image with a PDF extension, you should be able to read it. When you click on the file say in IE, you should get three choices for how you want to read the document. Generally,the first pick, "infer reading order" is OK, but I've found with columnar or tabular stuff like bus schedules, you want the "left to right, top to bottom" option. Click on OK, making sure you're set to read the entire document. Frankly, I've had the best results by doing a control a to select all after the document starts reading, then dumping the selection into the clipboard. Then, I open a new word doc and paste the clipboard there and save according to what I need.
Now, if you're dealing with an image, you're going to have to do OCR on it, perhaps with something like Freedom's Import Printer which is a part of Openbook I believe. Bill Stephan Kansas City, MO (816)803-2469 William Stephan -----Original Message----- From: "David Ingram"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 8/25/06 12:03:39 PM To: "[email protected]"<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [jaws-users] reading PDF How can i read pdf files and what version of adobe should be used on a windows x p machine? I would appreciate any information that you may have concerning this question? I'm using jaws4.51 so would that make a difference as well? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Margaret Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 9:55 AM Subject: Re: [jaws-users] reading PDF In addition to older systems, wasn't there something about folks with older versions of JAWS not being able to upgrade to later versions of Adobe? Margaret "Lou" wrote: Hi, I tried to get that version but it will not let me down load anything but 6.00 because I am running m e. What can I do to get latest and greatest? Lou ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Gallik To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 7:51 AM Subject: Re: [jaws-users] reading PDF I strongly urge everybody to make sure they are using the latest version of Adobe Reader (7.0.5 I believe). Probably the most convenient way to do this is to bring up Adobe Reader, go to the "Edit Menu" and select "Preferences." Then find the "Updates" item in the resulting tree list and select the options as you choose except that I recommend you select to update at start up item in that particular dialog box. The most recent version of Adobe Reader is light years ahead of the version that was current just last year. And even though you may have the most recent version of Adobe Reader, there may still be many documents that cause difficulties. Saving as text is one option, but I've had the experience in the past that doing this just may result in information out of place -- as if it were inserted into the document after an initial draft or something like that. Another problem is that a PDF document just may contain a photograph of a hardcopy document. In these cases Adobe Reader is pretty much useless to those of us that must rely on screen reading software. I happen to have Kurzweil 1000 so when I cannot read a PDF document that confuses content or I suspect to have been a photo-copy I opt to have it printed via the KESI Virtual Printer whereupon Kurzweil can then read the document to me. I don't know if Open Book has such a feature, but this does work quite well. HTH ---------------- Bill Gallik E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss Visit the JAWS Users list home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the JAWS Users List send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Yahoo! Groups Links Visit the JAWS Users list home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the JAWS Users List send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Yahoo! Groups Links Visit the JAWS Users list home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the JAWS Users List send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jaws-users/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
