[Athen] [EXT] Question abut the program zoom text

[Robert Beach]

Hello,

ZoomText is primarily a magnification program but it does have some screen reading capabilities built in. If the screen reading feature is not reading the PDF, it is most likely because it is a scanned PDF document and does not have actual text to read. The solution will be to run the PDF through an OCR (optical character recognition) program such as ABBYY Fine Reader to generate actual text. Adobe Acrobat does have OCR capability, but it is not very good. I would not recommend depending on it.

If you want to contact me directly I can give you more information on this.

Robert Lee Beach
Assistive Technology Specialist - Student Accessibility & Support Services

Kansas City Kansas Community College
7250 State Ave. - Suite # 3384 - Kansas City, KS 66112
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Hello!

Is anyone familiar with the program Zoom Text?

I have a student and parent who is using it and they are having issues with this program with it not reading PDF.

I am not familiar with this program nor any other program that is meant for low vision users.

Any suggestions on other programs that you know works with PDFS is welcome or troubling shooting is greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time and help in advance.
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Charlotte Norton
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