Yes, it is a victory!! In my version of windows 7 at the hospital, I found
that PDF Creator was there. After adding it to my printers, I was able to
print the tiff files with the pdf creator and then JAWS would conveniently
ask me if I wanted to OCR. Doing things this way got JAWS to ocr all of
Thank you both for your help! You have given me some ideas of things to try.
Fernando, I can't remember is there a facility in Windows 7 to print to PDF?
I forgot to mention that the hospital is still using windows 7 machines.
I have found that the JAWSS OCR on files is pretty good, but I
Hi Debby,
This is certainly something that FS should inprove in a future major or
minnor release.
As a workaround, however, you could save the file as PDF by using a virtual
printer, such as the one included with Foxit Reader (this software is
comparably accessible as Adobe Reader and easier to
Do you think the budget could stretch to accommodate an OCR package for you?
I don't think it'd have to be anything too fancy or expensive. Abbyy
Finereader would probably do the trick. Then you could import all the .tifs
into the programme and oCR them as if you had scanned them yourself.
I'm
Hello,
At the hospital where I volunteer faxes are stored in the voice mail system.
There is a program to retrieve the fax images. I can get to the fax images
with JAWS, however the format is tiff. With the "recognize with JAWS" that
normally isn't a problem, however, the faxes are multiple
