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

[Wershing, Alice D.]

I have seen this with files that I've received from Access Text Network, and have had to delete the bookmarks and then redo them in Kurzweil.  I think we should put in a ticket with tech support to see if there is a work around for this.
Alice


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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
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On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 11:29 AM Charlotte Schiff-Norton <cgs5 at stmarys-ca.edu<mailto: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.
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Charlotte Norton
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Saint Mary's College of California
Student Disability Services<https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/student-disability-services>
Accessibility & Assistive Technology Coordinator
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