I should mention that just for fun I've held my KNFB Reader Mobile to a
computer monitor to see what if anything gets picked up and I've had some
success with doing this as well with the usual miss haps with scanning
something.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Catherine Getchell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Adobe empty document message
> Hi Deborah and the list,
> Deborah, if you have OpenBook, I think V. 6 or higher, you're in luck.
> Kurzweil may do something similar -- I don't know. But in Adobe, if you
> get
> that message, you can hit control P for print, and look at the choices you
> have for printers to send it to. You'll likely see whatever printer you
> have hooked up to your system. But if you have OpenBook installed, you
> should also see something called "freedom import printer." Hit enter on
> that, and OpenBook should automatically launch and apply OCR to the
> document, which is most likely an image. You'll then be able to read the
> document from within OpenBook.
>
> Some documents do better than others with this. Documents in weird
> tabular
> formats don't work so great, but straight text usually works pretty well.
> I
> f all else fails, write the person/people who sent you this stuff, tell
> them
> it's inaccessible, and ask if they can send it to you as a Word or txt
> file
> instead. Hope this helps.
> Catherine
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Deborah Kendrick" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 12:51 PM
> Subject: [VICUG-L] Adobe empty document message
>
>
>> Hi everyone,
>> I don't know much about PDF documents, but have been able to read several
>> of
>> them in the past when necessary. I'm have just sold my house, and have
>> had
>> a number of important documents emailed to me that are PDF. On two
>> different computers now, I get the message "empty documen" after the
>> initial
>> messages telling me the document is being processed.
>> The first few were from my realtor, and I thought that the problem was
>> that
>> she had scanned print documents. However, now I have one from the
>> mortgage
>> banker, and I'm sure that he would have created the document online. And
>> yet, I just get the message "empty document" and am unable to see it.
>> I'm pretty desperate and will be exceedingly grateful for any
>> suggestions!
>> Deborah
>>
>>
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