[Athen] accessing PDF image files

[Bundy, Keith]

And, in JAWS 16, you can press JawsKey+Space, followed by O D to scan the entire document. 


Keith Bundy, MS
Dakota State University
Phone: 605-256-5121
Email: keith.bundy at dsu.edu

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From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Karlen Communications
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I use JAWS too and forgot about convenient OCR. I've used PDF Transformer before that feature was available in JAWS. Old habits die hard!

For those who also forget - from the JAWS Help documentation:

Note: When using OCR keystrokes, press and release INSERT+SPACEBAR, then press O followed by the final keystroke.

Press INSERT+SPACEBAR, O, W to OCR the current window. 
Press INSERT+SPACEBAR, O, S to OCR the current screen. 
Press INSERT+SPACEBAR, O, C to OCR the current control. 
Press INSERT+SPACEBAR, O, Q to cancel the OCR process. 
Press INSERT+SPACEBAR, O, QUESTION MARK to hear the help message for the OCR keystrokes.

Cheers, Karen

Cheers, Karen

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I am a JAWS user and have had good success with the OCR feature of JAWS 16.
I copy the text from the recognition, paste into a Word document, and, like Karen said, keep the pdf in case someone with sight needs to see the original.


Keith Bundy, MS
Dakota State University
Phone: 605-256-5121
Email: keith.bundy at dsu.edu

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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,

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> 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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