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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1F3864'>Yes, I have the Nuance/Kofax PowerPDF and am constantly testing it as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1F3864'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1F3864'>Cheers, Karen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1F3864'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> athen-list <athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu> <b>On Behalf Of </b>foreigntype@gmail.com<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 18, 2020 2:58 PM<br><b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list@u.washington.edu><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] ABBYY FineReader Replacement for Adobe Acrobat Webinar<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Tagging on (no pun intended) to Karen's insights on the new AbbyyFR's PDF software, I've been a big fan of Nuance's POWER PDF for a number of years because of the ease in which it can create form-fillable documents. I use this for myself personally, and had not looked further into its other capabilities. PowerPDF can also create tagged documents, and I think it's well worth our collective efforts to evaluate both the new ABBYY FR PDF and the Nuance PowerPDF (now owned by Kofax. Here's a link: <a href="https://www.kofax.com/Products/power-pdf/advanced">https://www.kofax.com/Products/power-pdf/advanced</a>) <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Cheers all around!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Wink Harner<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Accessibility Consultant/Alternative Text Production<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>The Foreign Type<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Portland OR<br><a href="mailto:foreigntype@gmail.com" target="_blank">foreigntype@gmail.com</a><br>480-984-0034<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>This email was dictated using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Please forgive quirks, misrecognitions, or errata .<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 11:36 AM Karlen Communications <<a href="mailto:info@karlencommunications.com">info@karlencommunications.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1F3864'>Hi Everyone:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1F3864'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1F3864'>I got this in my e-mail this morning and have registered for it. After updating my ABBYY FineReader 15 yesterday I discovered that you can create PDF forms in it and that once I did the OCR on a document and saved it as searchable text, ABBYY added Tags. I know, most of you working with FineReader probably know this.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1F3864'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1F3864'>Anyway, it looks like ABBYY FineReader is looking to take a piece of the PDF market and are giving a webinar on FineReader PDF 15 as a replacement for Acrobat:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1F3864'><a href="https://promo.abbyy.com/us-finereader-pdf-a-practical-replacement-to-adobe-acrobat-webinar-registration.html?utm_campaign=finereader-pdf-replacement-to-adobe-acrobat-us-mail&utm_medium=email&utm_source=webinar" target="_blank">https://promo.abbyy.com/us-finereader-pdf-a-practical-replacement-to-adobe-acrobat-webinar-registration.html?utm_campaign=finereader-pdf-replacement-to-adobe-acrobat-us-mail&utm_medium=email&utm_source=webinar</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1F3864'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1F3864'>Am sending this in case you are interested.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1F3864'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1F3864'>I’ve abandoned Foxit for Business as an alternative but am now testing FineReader. I added some form controls in FineReader and then took a look in Acrobat. Still had to add the untagged annotations but you can do a fair bit in FineReader.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1F3864'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1F3864'>Cheers, Karen</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>athen-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu" target="_blank">athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu</a><br><a href="http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list" target="_blank">http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></body></html>