[Athen] Nuance PDF Reader-have free online scanning -- quite cool!

[Pratik Patel]

I have been using this for the last few weeks.  The online OCR feature is
nice.  But I have found it to be untimely.  It has taken the service more
than 48 hours to deliver the the document back after conversion.  Plus, if
using JAWS, it strangely manages to take over the insert/capslock key like
its paid counterpart.  One has to end-task JFW and restart it.  It may be a
nice alternative to Acrobat Reader for everyone else.

 

Pratik

 

 

From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On
Behalf Of Kenneth Elkind
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 2:56 PM
To: athen at athenpro.org
Subject: [Athen] Nuance PDF Reader-have free online scanning -- quite cool!

 

Little the time ago I ran across nuance PDF reader.

 

 If you haven't tried it already it has a wonderful feature allowing you to
convert a PDF to Word or any other format.  You take a image PDF (it does
have to be at a PDF) Select their PDF converter it will open you to a
webpage and and a few minutes later you will receive any e-mail of this word
document with quite a good recognition and preserves the layout quite
nicely.  One does need to correct any rotation issues. 

 

 

Kenneth Elkind

Adaptive Technology Specialist

University of Massachusetts - Boston

IT-ED Tech Operations

Healey Library /UL/ 032

617-287-5243

Kenneth.Elkind at umb.edu

 

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