Hi all. Here are a couple of bits I've gleaned from the Top Tech Tidbits in
late May and early June of this year.
May 29, 2008:
7) Jamal Mazrui has advanced his free PDF2TXT program to Version 3. This
version allows you to turn password-protected PDF documents into text if you
know the password, and to use the best available free OCR to convert those
pesky PDF's that contain merely a picture of the text, into readable text.
http://EmpowermentZone.com/p2tsetup.exe
June 12, 2008:
16) Speaking of pdf documents, Fred's Head Companion alerts us to a
web-based service for converting them to text, even retaining form elements
if the pdf is a form.
http://pdftextonline.com/
17) And here's a $12.50 pdf document converter that will convert pdf's into
all sorts of formats and is said to be thoroughly accessible. A free demo of
this program, called ABC Amber Pdf, can be had here:
http://www.processtext.com/abcpdf.html
-----Original Message-----
From: Visually Impaired Computer Users' Group List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Flor Lynch
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 6:54 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Jeff, Re: [VICUG-L] noticed something with Adobe and
Vista
Bear in mind that Adobe Reader cannnot read scanned images. they have to be
recognized by an OCR program, such as Kurzweil 1000, Open Book, FineReader,
or OmniPage.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 1:49 AM
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Jeff, Re: [VICUG-L] noticed something with Adobe and
Vista
How does this program work? It is like the older E-mail progrsams? There
have been documents I've wanted to read that are . pdf but are scanned, and
when I open the reader it thinks nothing is there.
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Don Moore wrote:
> The PDF to TXT program, the current version does a pretty fair job of
> reading scanned files.
>
> I don't have the exact web address for the Empowerment Zone, but it
> was posted here several months ago and the price for the program is right!
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 8:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Jeff, Re: [VICUG-L] noticed something with
> Adobe and Vista
>
>
> Hello everyone, for some .pdf files I have found success with opening
> up the file. If it doesn't read after the processing has finished to
> the following.
> 1. Save the document with save as, under file then save as. Name it
> and save it where you desire, and then go to that file and open it up.
> It will reprocess again, but should be readable. This doesn't work
> with all .pdf files especially those that have been scanned. If
> anyone knows how these can be read let me know, and thanks in advance.
> You also could try searching for the file on google and google has
> html versions of many .pdf files.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cheryll" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 5:26 AM
> Subject: Jeff, Re: [VICUG-L] noticed something with Adobe and Vista
>
>
> > Hello Jeff,
> >
> > I also am having trouble with reading pdf documents. Did you get it
> > resolved? If so, will you please share the information with me.
> >
> > many thanks,
> > Cheryl
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 6:21 AM
> > Subject: [VICUG-L] noticed something with Adobe and Vista
> >
> >
> >> Hi everyone, I have noiticed something with Adobe 8 and Vista. For
> >> some
> >> documents I have had a hard time reading documents even after the
> >> processing was complete. It wouldn't do anything so Itried saving the
> >> .pdf file yesterday and it seems to be working out fine. WHat was
> >> happening was that i would click on something in .pdf format and it
> >> would
> >> process but not read. I am using Vista with Adobe 8.
> >>
> >>
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