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

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From: Jonathan Metz
Date: Jul 17, 2013 7:56PM

Thanks for the response, Olaf.


Yes, I forgot to mention that Acrobat crashes too. I haven¹t installed
pdfGoHTML on this computer yet, but a good idea none the less.

Whats the name of that other PDF reader that works with NVDA? I just can¹t
remember the name and want to give that a whirl.

Should I just try OCRing that page that¹s causing me trouble and see if
that helps any?

Thanks,
Jonathan

On 7/17/13 6:10 PM, "Olaf Drümmer" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>Hi Jonathan,
>
>Am 17 Jul 2013 um 20:35 schrieb Jonathan Metz
>< <EMAIL REMOVED> >:
>
>> When I use Adobe¹s Read Out Loud Œfeature¹, 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
>
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