[Athen] accessing PDF image files

[Maria Bohn]

You can do a free Trial of the Abbyy software for on month also - we just
put in a purchase order for the full package - it OCR¹s so much better
than Adobe Pro which I am currently using


Maria Bohn 
Senior Resource Accommodation Specialist
Assistive Technology
Office of Specialized Services
Bergen Community College




On 8/24/15, 8:01 PM, "Kluesner, Bryon" <Bryon-Kluesner at utc.edu> wrote:


>I agree with Karen. The ABBYY PDF Transformer is worth the small

>investment. I think it converts better than most of the OCR programs out

>there.

>

>Bryon

>

>Bryon Kluesner, RhD

>Adaptive Technology Coordinator

>Disability Resource Center

>Adjunct Faculty

>College of Health, Education & Professional Studies

>University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

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>

>Go MOCS!

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>Subject: Re: [Athen] accessing PDF image files

>

>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

>

>Sent from my iPad

>

>> 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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