Re: Urgent help with getting a pdf into text

2015-02-04 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : gellman via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Urgent help with getting a pdf into text As jaybird correctly notes there are some circumstances where Adobe Reader cant save the text. The solution to making an image pdf accessible to screen readers is running it through OCR software, which is often commercial.Have read that Google

Urgent help with getting a pdf into text

2015-02-04 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : ghost rider via Audiogames-reflector
Urgent help with getting a pdf into text Hello all. So yesterday, I downloaded a copy of THE DC UNIVERSE ENCYCLOPEDIA. My vision teachers said they would be more than happy to braille it for me, but one problem: PDF wouldnt work. So I have to convert it. I did some googling and not much

Re: Urgent help with getting a pdf into text

2015-02-04 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : ghost rider via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Urgent help with getting a pdf into text I dont know if this helps but when I open the file it says reader. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=203678#p203678 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list

Re: Urgent help with getting a pdf into text

2015-02-04 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : ghost rider via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Urgent help with getting a pdf into text Gelman I sent you a pm. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=203679#p203679 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com

Re: Urgent help with getting a pdf into text

2015-02-04 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : defender via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Urgent help with getting a pdf into text Adobi Reader can do it, its in the file menu last time I checked. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=203673#p203673 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list

Re: Urgent help with getting a pdf into text

2015-02-04 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : gellman via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Urgent help with getting a pdf into text @ghost riderThank you for your PM.Unfortunately the pdf is of low quality resolution and is therefore unsuitable for OCR processing.Most likely it was scanned from a papercopy source by a sighted person to whom OCR did not matter.I would not

Re: Urgent help with getting a pdf into text

2015-02-04 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : jaybird via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Urgent help with getting a pdf into text As far as I know, that wont work under a few circumstances, unless Adobe has changed a lot since I used it for such:1. If the PDF is just a bunch of scanned images with no text, no straight PDF reader can save the text, because theres no text to

Re: Urgent help with getting a pdf into text

2015-02-04 Thread AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Dranelement via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Urgent help with getting a pdf into text A place Ive used to convert lots of pdfs is www.convertfiles.comIm not sure if it does the OCR, though, but its something to try. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=203690#p203690