You can also use Convenient OCR if you have a recent version of JAWS. 
It'll be kind of tedious to read a whole document that way, but if you 
have a short document or you're just looking for a piece of information, 
it'll work for you.

On 07/10/2014 02:07 PM, Bill Pasco wrote:
> Yes if you have Open Book or Kurzweil software, you can do OCR on these
> documents. You can either open the PDF file directly in Open Book, or from
> within Adobe, you can print the document to the Freedom Import Printer
> which loads Open Book and then does OCR on the document.
>
> Bill
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> I am running across more and more .pdf files which are saved as images
> rather than text.
> When opening them with Acrobat or other pdf readers, all I get is a blank.
> Is there some way of getting at the text content of these files?
>
> Thanks!
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