Gudrun, It may be that the resultant OCR is not a form that you can fill in and send back.
I've tried to use the forms mode with my copy of Adobe Acrobat 9, and while it allows me to tab to fields and enter text, JAWS likes to crash after just a few attempts -- and does so consistently on JAWS 16. Have not had a chance yet to try it with JAWS 17. Dave Carlson Oregonian, woodworker, Engineer, Musician, and Pioneer ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gudrun Brunot" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 28, 2015 01:40 PM Subject: Re: CONFUSED! Adobe Reader XI seems to do OCR automatically? Hello again: I tried opening the W9 file, and I hit the keystroke to OCr it, and I heard the process start. After a few seconds, I heard the name of the file. I hit alt-f and s to save it with text layers. Still, nothing appeared on the braille display or could be heard with JAWS as I tried moving inside the file. So, after the OCR conversion, what should one do to fill out the form? Should I reopen the file? Gudrun -----Original Message----- From: Brian Vogel [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2015 8:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CONFUSED! Adobe Reader XI seems to do OCR automatically? I'll jump in here hoping that what I add will make some sense since the participants so far clearly have a good grasp of the last two releases of Adobe Reader and the OCR capabilities of JAWS. Since many of the PDF files that my clients use are of fairly substantial page count, and they need to be referenced again and again, having to do OCR processing more than once can really slow their lives down. I do not know of any version of Adobe Reader (the free versions) that has any built in OCR capability. This is why I have introduced them to PDF-XChange Viewer <http://www.tracker-software.com/PDFXVwer.zip> (this link is the direct download link for the ZIP file used to install that software). While it does not consistently "play well" with JAWS in all respects, it is simple to use the built in OCR scanning function to take a PDF that was originally scanned as an image file, create a text layer from the images, and save it back to the original PDF file as a unit. Then you can open it as many times as you like in the future without needing to go through any OCR process again. Since I know that JAWS is written to "play well" with specific programs I encourage them to use Adobe Reader to actually do their reading of the PDF files that they do OCR processing on and save with PDF-XChange Viewer. What follows are the step-by-step instructions that I give to my clients who need to have the capability to do permanent OCR on PDFs they'll be referring to repeatedly with PDF-XChange Viewer: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PDF-XChange Viewer Used when you receive a PDF that was originally scanned without Optical Character Recognition. For reading stick to Adobe Reader. 1. Open PDF-XChange Viewer from your start menu or desktop, wherever you chose to create the shortcut(s). 2. ALT+F, O Open a file, you’ll need to know where it is and navigate there in the Open Dialog, which is very much like Windows Explorer. 3. CTRL+SHIFT+C Perform optical character recognition on the file. This will be quick for small files, 20 pages or less, but will take some time for very large files, hundreds of pages. Listen for the process to complete. 4. ALT+F, S Save the file over itself with the OCR text now included. If you wish to save the file under a different name and keep the original use ALT+F, A Save As to do this instead. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brian -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to [email protected] Archives located at: http://www.groups.io/g/jfw/threads Alternative archives located at: http://n2.nabble.com/JAWS-for-Windows-f2145279.html If you have any concerns about the list, posts received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at [email protected]. -=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View This Message (#35854): https://groups.io/g/jfw/message/35854 Mute This Thread: https://groups.io/mt/291175?uid=21656 Change Your Subscription: https://groups.io/g/jfw/editsub?uid=21656 Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/jfw/leave/46502/1292106160/xyzzy Group Home: https://groups.io/g/jfw Contact Group Owner: [email protected] Terms of Service: https://groups.io/static/tos -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
