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Re: NVDA, Acrobat, Reader, or User issue with OCRed PDF

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From: Olaf Drümmer
Date: Jul 17, 2013 4:10PM

Hi Jonathan,

Am 17 Jul 2013 um 20:35 schrieb Jonathan Metz < <EMAIL REMOVED> >:

> When I use Adobe’s Read Out Loud ‘feature’, Acrobat force closes.

that looks like the PDF might have syntactical problems.

Could you also try to
- use Acrobat Pro and save as accessible text - what do you get?
- use callas pdfGoHTML - what do you get?

Background info: it's more or less the same engine that is working inside Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat for any of the above, and also for how NVDA gets access to the PDF file's content. If NVDA doesn't give you much, it might be because Adobe Reader is struggling and does not give much to NVDA to begin with.

Olaf