I was curious.  I activated the link you provided, which opened Internet
Explorer, then Acrobat Reader.  Acrobat said the document was empty, and
consisted of 6 pages.  I used Acrobat to save a copy of the file.  I have
Kurzweil 1000 here, but wanted to try another OCR program from the
commercial market, Omnipage 15.  The choice to use Omnipage was on the Fle
menu of Windows Explorer when the PDF file was selected.  I chose "convert
to text" and found it was running very slowly.  The conversion took about 4
minutes.  The result was quite readable, although there were a lot of OCR
errors, also.  If I remember to do it, I'll try the same document on K100
tomorrow night.
73 -- Lloyd, W3IUU
Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of T Behler
> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 9:18 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: still having trouble with PDF files
> 
> All right, guys, I give up! ...
> 
> I have tried the suggestion about printing PDF files to the K1000 virtual
> printer, and I have tried saving the PDF file and then opening it in
> K1000,
> and I keep getting the "empty document" message.
> 
> My XYL has tried too. ... She says the document is on the screen, but Jaws
> and/or K1000 just don't recognize it.
> 
> I am including the link to one of the articles I'm trying to access below.
> 
> http://ferris.docutek.com/eres/docs/1256/homegrown_terror.pdf
> 
> 
> This is not an emergency, in that I have text files of the articles from
> the
> University library, but it is an issue that I need to resolve, since more
> and more PDF files are getting to be picture or image files.
> 
> For anyone who has the time, play around with this document, and see if
> you
> can get it to read for you.
> 
> Again, this is not an emergency--just a nagging problem.
> 
> 73 and thanks from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ, Big Rapids, MI