Another possible way. I did this yesterday. Opened a 245 page PDF. Then I selected all using control-A. Then copied and pasted directly into a blank Word doc. Then saved the Word Doc under the book title name. Now it opens in Word remarkably fast and reads very well. It might be searchable. Hope this helps.
I use latest J16, Office and Word 2010 on my I5 Dell laptop. Best -----Original Message----- From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ann Byrne via Jfw Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 8:57 PM To: The Jaws for Windows support list. Cc: Ann Byrne Subject: Re: PDF documents If you have JAWS 16, have it convert the document for you. Press insert-spacebar, then the letter o for optical character recognition, then d for document, and let it run. When JAWS has finished, the document is not only readable, but it can be copied and saved into another form, such as Word or text. good luck! At 08:30 PM 7/15/2015, you wrote: >My office has a program that is supposed to convert pdf documents to >searchable text. The issue is that my sighted colleague said that she >could do a search of this one large document and find different words in it. >However JAWS just read "graphic" Graphic" and gave me some numbers of the >graphics. I'm wondering what is happening here, does anyone have any ideas? >Thanks! > >Bar > > > > >_______________________________________________ >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 _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
