There's a new key in 16. Do the JAWS-Space-O, then hit D for document. This will put you in a Results field, which will contain the scanned text. However, this is a temporary field, so, if you want to take your time or save your results, copy and paste them into the appropriate program. It may take a minute or two for the entire document to appear, but JAWS will give you progress reports. This is important if you want to export the scanned document, but JAWS will allow you to start reading almost immediately.
Ted Ted -----Original Message----- From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Behler via Jfw Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 8:19 PM To: 'The Jaws for Windows support list.' Subject: Still having problems with scanned image PDF files Hi, all. A few weeks ago, I raised the issue of how best to use the OCR capability in the most recent versions of Jaws to read scanned image PDF files. In response to my quiry, a list member gave me the following instructions: Tom, using your current version of JAWS, your best bet is to perform an OCR of your screen, when you have an unreadable PDF in focus. To do this, you will need to press JAWS Key plus the space bar to activate the layer menu. JAWS should make an audible sound indicating that you've done this successfully. Then press the letter O. JAWS should announce OCR. Then press S for screen. You can also press W for window, if the screen option does not give you what you want." I received another scanned image file today, and tried both sets of instructions, but had no luck in reading the text in the file. Jaws did come up, but it spoke in the Jaws cursor voice, rather than the PC cursor voice, and didn't appear to be reading anything meaningful from the document in focus. Am I missing something here? I'd be happy to e-mail the file to anyone who might want to take a look at it. P.S. I'm using Jaws 14 on a windows 7 machine here. Perhaps this would be a good reason to upgrade to Jaws 16. Dr. Tom Behler from Michigan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/20141114/d2d15d02/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
