Yes, iBooks and mail are the best PDF readers I've ever worked with. 

David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
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On 14/03/2013, at 17:05, Chuck Dean <[email protected]> wrote:

> OK, Matthew,
> I have had some PDFs that do not read on my desktop, so I emailed
> them to myself and they would read in Ibooks. I don't know why.
> Personally, I hate PDFs.
> 
> 
> Chuck
> 
> On Mar 13, 7:47 pm, Matthew Campbell <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Hello Chuck.
>> Sadly, iBooks will not work in this situation. It will of course display the 
>> text, but since that text is actually an image, there is no way to read it 
>> with VoiceOver.
>> Thanks for the suggestion though.
>> 
>> On 2013-03-13, at 10:29 PM, Chuck Dean <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> iBooks can read most  PDFs so there is no need for OCR .
>>> It is worth a try.
>> 
>>> Chuck
>> 
>>> On Mar 13, 6:49 pm, David Chittenden <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> iBooks does not OCR.
>> 
>>>> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
>>>> Email: [email protected]
>>>> Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>>> On 14/03/2013, at 14:28, Chuck Dean <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>>>> Have you tried to open the PDFs in iBooks?
>>>>> I know it can read some PDFs, but I am not sure if the type you are
>>>>> talking about will work.
>> 
>>>>> Just a thought,
>> 
>>>>> Chuck
>> 
>>>>> On Mar 13, 4:19 pm, David Chittenden <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> You need to use an OCR package. Voice Dream Reader is not an OCR package.
>> 
>>>>>> Prizmo can OCR images from your camera roll. For this solution to work, 
>>>>>> you need to get the PDF page image into the camera roll.
>> 
>>>>>> 1) Open the PDF file. I do this from directly in mail.
>> 
>>>>>> 2) Press home and power buttons at the same time to take a screen shot 
>>>>>> of the first page of the image. The screen shot will be the last photo 
>>>>>> in your photo album. If there are more than one page in the PDF file:
>> 
>>>>>> 3) use a three finger flick up to advance the PDF image to the next 
>>>>>> page. Follow steps 2 and 3 until pictures have been captured of the 
>>>>>> entire PDF.
>> 
>>>>>> 4) Open Prizmo and select text.
>>>>>> 5) Select the OCR from image option.
>> 
>>>>>> 6) Remember how many images you captured and count back that many 
>>>>>> images, or start with an empty photo book. Follow the prompts to OCR the 
>>>>>> images and save the resulting text files. You will get a separate file 
>>>>>> for each page.
>> 
>>>>>> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
>>>>>> Email: [email protected]
>>>>>> Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>>>>> On 14/03/2013, at 11:06, Matthew Campbell <[email protected]> 
>>>>>> wrote:
>> 
>>>>>>> Hello all.
>>>>>>> I'm just wondering if anyone has found a way to take an image based pdf 
>>>>>>> file and turn it in to text from an IOS device? I've got text books 
>>>>>>> from the college that come as image based pdf files and would like to 
>>>>>>> be able to read them on my iPhone 5 or iPad 2 instead of the computer. 
>>>>>>> I can do this, but that requires me to use a computer first to OCR the 
>>>>>>> images of the pages and then save them as text or rtf files. It'd be 
>>>>>>> nice to skip this step if possible, and would allow me to study from an 
>>>>>>> IOS device more effectively.
>>>>>>> Does VoiceDream maybe do this?
>>>>>>> Thanks for any opinions and suggestions.
>>>>>>> Matthew Campbell.
>> 
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