Since you state NVDA will read them, they apparently hold text, not just scanned images. I have seen numerous samples of the same behavior, which in rality have lead me to stop using Adobe in my daily activity. I find that those documents, typically will open in things like QRead, and there WE will read them well enough. What's more, often the layout of the document will be somehow better in QRead.
Other PDF readers out there, might have similar beneficial effect. QRead for one, is not exactly free, but low-cost enough, that it proved worth the money to buy a license. Several years ago, I bought a license for a PDF-To-Text converter, think it was from a company named something like ABC Software, but cannot find the software, nor the license here now. Back then, that was the better solution. Adobe has been on and off, when comes to reliability - from my experience. They release one version, and for a while everything works wonderfully well. Then comes a new version, or at least you start getting new PDF files, and everything seem broken. Who is the bottleneck, I do not know. As a user though, I am lost. Could it be the Adobe, the PDF file, the screen reader - or simply just the combination. For the more recent year and a half, QRead has been my solution. It will stay, till it no longer solves the issue, or something better comes around for handling PDF documents. One clear drawback with QRead - or any other converting software - is that you cannot fill-in things like a PDF form. Another disadvantage is that they do not let you print the document. Nuance, the former Scansoft, has something they name PaperPort, which is told to give you all flexibility with PDF documents. To what extent it will work with a screen reader, would be nice to know if anyone has any experience. Then again, it does cost a chunk. On 2/11/2017 1:44 AM, Don H via Talk wrote: > I find a lot of pdf documents that will open in adobe reader that WE > will only say top and bottom and not read what is displayed on the > screen. The only remedy I have found so far is to use NVDA instead of > WE to read these files. Is theere a way to get WE to read them? > Running latest WE ona Win 10 system. > _______________________________________________ > Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the > author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. > > For membership options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/trailerdavid%40hotmail.com. > For subscription options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > List archives can be found at > http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > . > _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
