[Athen] Scanning and Read and Write Gold for Mac

[Sean J Keegan]

 > Sean, if I understand you correctly you have a document
 > that is already in  PDF format and are trying to get Read
 > and Write Gold to scan/read it?

The short answer is Yes, I am trying to get Read and Write Gold for Mac 
to scan/OCR a PDF document.  It is an image-based PDF; that is, there is 
no actual text for PDFAloud to read.  I have been playing with the 
PDFAloud component, but the types of PDF documents we have are 
image-based and need to be scanned/OCR'd by R&W Gold before they can be 
processed by PDFAloud.

The issue I am encountering (and it seems others have encountered this 
as well) is that R&W Gold for Mac will not recognize the PDF file 
extension as a format to be scanned.  This is not a problem on the 
Windows version (I scanned/OCR'd a 12 page, image-based PDF document and 
it worked fine with PDFAloud).  The problem is on the Mac platform and 
R&W Gold's inability to recognize PDF as a valid file format to be 
scanned/OCR'd.

Thanks much for your feedback.

Take care,
Sean
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