[Athen] accessing PDF image files

[Karlen Communications]

I use ABBYY PDF Transformer which is $79 USD and will do the OCR and give me a Word document.

I can get other formats, but Word let's me get to the content quickly. I usually keep the original in case I need to cite it.

Cheers, Karen

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> On Aug 24, 2015, at 6:43 PM, Jennison Asuncion <JAsuncion at dawsoncollege.qc.ca> wrote:

> 

> Hi,

> 

> Unsure if others already do this for their students - occasionally I'll need access to a PDF that ends up being a scanned image, useless to my screen reader. In those cases, I'll do a virtual scan using Kurzweil 1000 and am usually lucky enough to get a fairly readable file.

> 

> Jennison

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> Hi,

> 

> Unsure if others already do this for their students - occasionally I'll need access to a PDF that ends up being a scanned image, useless to my screen reader. In those cases, I'll do a virtual scan using Kurzweil 1000 and am usually lucky enough to get a fairly readable file.

> 

> Jennison

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