[Athen] Conversion of PDF files = Blank document

[Thomas Kearns]

Its funny that someone else is having this issue. What I have done is save the PDF as a Tiff file. However, Omni page doesn't have on it's download selection TIFF only TIF even though OMNI can convert them. So, once you have choose the folder that the TIFFs are in select the "Files of type drop down box and select All files. The TIFF files will appear and you can OCR them as you would any other recognized file type. The following are two screen captures of this Omni Page procedure. 
Graphic of File selection for Loading Files in Omni 17.



Graphic of File selection for Loading TIFF Files in Omni 17 showing by using the selection of All files.


Hope this helped.

Thomas Kearns
Assistive Technician & ATACP Accessibility Specialist 
Disability Resource Center 
Truckee Meadows Community College
7000 Dandini Blvd. (RDMT 315-U)
Reno, Nevada 89512
Wk: 775-673-7209  Fax 775-673-7207
Email: tkearns at tmcc.edu  
 



I have had these issues occur with OmniPage when the setting used in the Text Editor window (i.e., true page view, formatted text view, etc.)  is not the same as the setting chosen when you save to Word. In my experience, setting both the Text Editor view and the Word doc setting to "formatted text" gives the best results.
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From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Hunziker, Dawn A - (hunziker)
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 10:41 AM
To: Network, Access Technology Higher Education
Subject: [Athen] Conversion of PDF files = Blank document
 
Hi all,
 
I'm wondering if anyone else is running into an issue with converting PDF files into an accessible format?
 
We have an image-based PDF with no security options selected.  We use Omnipage to convert the file into a Word document and the document is full of blank pages.  If we don't zone the text in Omnipage to be recognized, Omnipage selects the "image" option and transfers the text into Word as an image.
 
Ideas?
 
Thanks,
 
Dawn
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Dawn Hunziker
Assistive Technology Coordinator
 
Disability Resource Center
University of Arizona
1224 E. Lowell St.
Tucson, AZ 85721
 
Phone: 520-626-9409
Fax: 520-626-5500
Web: http://drc.arizona.edu
 
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