[Athen] Issue with zoning a pre-book marked file within Kurzweil

[foreigntype at gmail.com]

Hi Charlotte,

Kurzweil has its own version of  "AbbyyFineReader light"  OCR & zoning
built-in. Anything done prior to uploading to Kurzweil is stripped
automatically.

The tools that are available in the built-in "AbbyyFineReader light"
version in Kurzweil are not as sophisticated or precise as found in the
standalone version of AbbyyFineReader or any other optical character
recognition program such as OmniPage Pro that we have available to us.

Another thing that you should keep in mind, any color overlays that exist
in text boxes & superimposed on any other images/charts/graphs etc.  with
embedded text cannot be stripped out in Kurzweil — the layers (of color)
are not removable and neither are these layers transparent. In other words,
if there are any text boxes with color overlays, the text behind it cannot
be read by Kurzweil, and you cannot remove the color layers to get to the
text. The consequence of that is that the text in the text boxes is behind
the colored layers and it must be retyped.

If the final output must be in Kurzweil, start in Kurzweil and remember to
proofread carefully to make sure all the text is captured from those boxes
with color overlays.

You will get a much cleaner tagged & accessible PDF if you use the regular
version of AbbyyFineReader or OmniPage Pro and provide the student access
to the book with a different text-to-speech reader or a screen reader such
as JAWS or NVDA.

I hope this is helpful information. Hopefully other people who use Kurzweil
can add to this. Let us know if you have any additional questions.

Wink
Wink Harner
Accessibility Consultant/Alternative Text Production
The Foreign Type

Portland OR
foreigntype at gmail.com


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On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 11:29 AM Charlotte Schiff-Norton <cgs5 at stmarys-ca.edu>
wrote:


> Hello Everyone!

> I'm hoping you can shed some light on my issue of the week.

>

> My issue is that after I bookmark a textbook in a PDF format I then upload

> it into the program Kurzweil. From there if I need to do any zone editing

> within Kurzweil it will not let me do this.

>

> Has anyone had this issue?

> If so, is there any way to work around it?

> Besides doing the bookmarking within Kurzweil.

> (I find it easier to do bookmarking in a PDF format.)

>

> Thank you in advance for all of your help and support.

> _________________________

> Charlotte Norton

> she/her/hers

> Saint Mary's College of California

> Student Disability Services

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> Office: (925) 631-5071

> Email: cgs5 at stmarys-ca.edu

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