[Athen] Comic book conversions

[Heidi Scher]

Thanks, Andrew! That was an option we had considered, but we were going to
have to re-type most of the text due to the "funky" font. Will definitely
keep it in mind though!

Have a great weekend!

Heidi

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Heidi Scher, M.S., CRC
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Center for Educational Access
University of Arkansas
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On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 4:51 PM, Swanson, Andrew <aswans15 at msudenver.edu>
wrote:


> You could try a program like Abbyy 14. There's a setting where you can

> keep the images as is, but have the text the reader interacts with be

> readable text. If you do text inside the images it and export it as an

> exact-copy-PDF it will maintain the integrity of the document verbatim but

> throw readable text behind the text bubbles (or anywhere you designate). To

> the student it will look the same, but it will interact with the reader

> differently. You can even set up a special font recognition since I imagine

> the text is all hand written. It would require some work but an

> accommodation is an accommodation.

>

> Andrew S.J. Swanson

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> Hello everyone!

>

> I hope your Monday has been more productive than our has been. Seems to be

> the day for strange issues and computer gremlins!

>

> We have a student who has requested that the graphic novels (i.e. comic

> books) be converted for her class. The course uses a textbook plus 5

> graphic novels. The student uses text-to-speech software (i.e. is not blind

> but does have a print-related disability).

>

> Has anyone else had the request for graphic novels to be converted? How

> did you accomplish the task? These are obviously important course

> materials, but just not sure how to accomplish the task. (Hard to believe

> in 13+ years I've not dealt with this topic previously!)  OCR will be a

> mess to attempt.

>

> Any suggestions would be appreciated!!

>

> Kind regards,

> Heidi

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> Heidi Scher, M.S., CRC

> Associate Director

> Center for Educational Access

> University of Arkansas

> ARKU 209

> Fayetteville, AR 72701

> 479.575.3104

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