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Tom Fowle <[log in to unmask]>
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Tom Fowle <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:42:01 -700
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dorey,
the best results I've heard of come from using an OCR package,
either one of the "Blind" reading systems like Kersweil or
Openbook that have the ability to take PDF files as input, or
Some use commercial OCR packages like OmniPage that can also
convert PDF files.  These require a good facility with screen
readers and are not as easy to use as the blind "self voicing"
OCR systems.

No mattere what you use, PDF files and the very complex pages
they allow people to publish just becaus they "CAN" are a major
barrier to accessible information for blind folks.

I considerAdobe to be public enemy number two.

you get ony one guess at number one.

                                                   tom Fowle


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