Urgent: reading PDF documents using preview in Os X 10.10

2014-10-18 Thread Venkatesh Potluri
Hi list, I just updated to Os X 10.10 a few hours ago. When I open a PDF in preview, VO says PDF Content group. When I interact with the group, VO says pdf static text and thats all! How do I get VO to read the content of the PDF file? This is a very important and urgent task for me as I have a

Re: Urgent: reading PDF documents using preview in Os X 10.10

2014-10-18 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Have you been able to read that particular document before? Sounds like you might need Abby Fine reader to run OCR on it. Sincerely, the Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Mac and iphone user! Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in and

Re: Urgent: reading PDF documents using preview in Os X 10.10

2014-10-18 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Is this a pdf document that you were previously able to read? If so, then Interact twice with the Content area then try using VO-down arrow to go through it. It's possible that the first page has nothing VO readable and VO appears to only read the document's current page if you don't

Re: Urgent: reading PDF documents using preview in Os X 10.10

2014-10-18 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there PDF Pen Pro will also OCR pdf image files. It does it automatically when it encounters a pdf image file. I have had good results from it before. Gigi On Oct 18, 2014, at 8:38 AM, Ray Foret Jr rforet7...@comcast.net wrote: Have you been able to read that particular document

Re: Urgent: reading PDF documents using preview in Os X 10.10

2014-10-18 Thread Venkatesh Potluri
Hi all, thanks for the help! Yes, it is a PDF document i have been able to read previously. There seems to be a bug in yosemite. I quit the PDF, turned off VO, opened the PDF and turned VO back on. When I interact with the PDF content, vo reads the PDF properly. Once again, thanks for the