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Re: A few questions

Akshaya Choudhary
 


If you DON'T specify a particular setting in a configuration profile, and then change it in the normal profile, it will carry over, but if you then change it in the profile, it will take the profile setting.  To demonstrate:

This is very bothersome. This basically means whenever you change anything in the normal profile, it will carry over to the other profiles you have created.

 

The steps you laid out work perfectly well, Quentin. Just one correction, in step 9 the punctuation level will return to “none”, not to “all”.

This didn’t help with what I was trying to do though. I wanted to change the individual symbol level of some punctuations, but, as it turns out, individual symbol levels of punctuations are global settings. Andre Fisher is correct in this regard.  For example, if you change the symbol level of left and right quotes in a new profile, it will carry over to the normal profile as well.

On the bright side,  I realise, if you send the punctuations to the synthesizer in the punctuation and symbols dialogue box, and you have audio rules set for these punctuations in the Phonetic Punctuation add-on,  then you will hear the set audio rule. So, effectively you can replace punctuations with audio sounds by sending the punctuations to the synthesizer without fiddling with the overall symbol level setting. This is what I was trying to do all this while. Got to learn a lot of things and finally managed to achieve the intended effect. Thank you guys!

 


Regards,
Sociohack
Re: about nvda add-on bringing text analiser feature in JAWS

Akshaya Choudhary
 

What is text inconsistency?
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Re: document converter things

Brian Vogel
 

Just mentioned on another topic, originally by Josh Kennedy:  http://www.multidoc-converter.com/en/index.html 
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about nvda add-on bringing text analiser feature in JAWS

Aschalew Byness
 

Hi Friends
Is there any nvda add-on that works as 'text analiser' to find text
inconsistency like that of jaws? In jaws, we find text inconsistency
with insert+space, a; or with win key+alt+i. how about in nvda?
Thank you!

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Re: NVDA remote, help please!!!

Tyler Spivey
 

Press windows+r, type %appdata%\nvda and press enter. Find remote.ini
and delete it.

On 5/22/2020 6:14 AM, Charles Adkins wrote:


Sent from my iPhoneI use NVDA remote at work alot to work from home, but now I'm having a problem with one of my work computers. When I hit enter on connect, the remote screen disappears. When I press enter on "remote sub menu" I get the dropdown, but when I press enter on connect or options I am taken right back to the desktop. I've uninstalled the add-on twice, reset NVDA back to factory settings and check firewall permissions and nothing works. I hope I can get this working.


Thank you for any help you can give me.

NVDA remote, help please!!!

Charles Adkins
 

Sent from my iPhoneI use NVDA remote at work alot to work from home, but now I'm having a problem with one of my work computers. When I hit enter on connect, the remote screen disappears. When I press enter on "remote sub menu" I get the dropdown, but when I press enter on connect or options I am taken right back to the desktop. I've uninstalled the add-on twice, reset NVDA back to factory settings and check firewall permissions and nothing works. I hope I can get this working.


Thank you for any help you can give me.
Re: document converter things

Richard Kuzma
 

Good morning,
For what it is worth, I have used several of NCH's products and they are practactly 100 percent accessible.
Most of them even come with a thirty day demo.
Hope this helps

-----Original Message-----
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of Shaun Everiss
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2020 2:10 AM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] document converter things

aah ok I'lll look at that to.


On 22/05/2020 1:34 am, Tony Ballou wrote:
Hi,


Try this one. It's got a free and a professional version, is
accessible with screen readers, and should do the job.


https://www.nchsoftware.com/documentconvert/index.html


Tony

On 5/21/2020 1:47 AM, Shaun Everiss wrote:
Hi.

Further to my old document conversion issue a user suggested multiple
document converter by polenter software.

I downloaded it but found 2 issues.

1. the program is not fully accessible.

Thats fine, I have only 2 large folders of files I want to convert.

2. on converting my word 95 files to 2003-word97 files, the files
themselves were corrupted and jarte crashed.

I then tried docx.


Every document I had which was quite old my word 95 files for
example, were blank.

This converter aint for me.

I have jarte which I payed for, which does everything I want.

Sadly I may have to get libre office or ms office or something so I
can read the files, I have a system with libre office and the files
are read fine enough, and I hardly need them, but if there is another
document converter even ifits a low cost office thing I'll try that.

This one just is not serving my purpose.

I also had a little trouble accessing it and in fact the rest of the
polenter apps were not especially usable.

I wander if there are document converters in the ms store.
Re: Excel NVDA and Large Text Cells

Quentin Christensen
 

Which Synthesizer are you using?  I just typed 150 words in a cell with eSpeak NG and it read fine all the way, and read back.  Then I did the same thing with OneCore and it worked.  I just realised I used NVDA 2020.1 - is there a reason you are using 2019.3.1 and now 2020.1?  Also are you using any add-ons?  If you restart Excel with add-ans disabled, does the spreadsheet work any better?

Re Louis suggestion - you shouldn't need to turn off allow editing in Cells - That was fixed over a year ago, but do let us know if it makes a difference.  Ah here it is - 2019.1 had the fix for the editing in cells bug: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-29th-march/

Aravind, Please don't hijack threads - I know this is about Excel but it is a completely different question.  Yours is a perfectly valid question, just would be better in its own thread (to be honest, off the top of my head I'm not sure - I'll have to have a look at it later).

Quentin.

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 8:55 PM Aravind R <aravind.andhrabank@...> wrote:
Friends, is NVDA supportive in vlookup function? normal uses mouse to
select column range for second argument which is easily done by jaws
using control+page up/down then selection keyboard commands. but, NVDA
is not reading the selection. is there any work around with NVDA?

On 22/05/2020, Louis Maher <ljmaher03@...> wrote:
> Hello Ed,
>
> Some tips for Excel cell editing.
>
> You can open a cell for editing with f2.  When you are editing with f2, alt
> + enter will insert a line feed in that cell without throwing you out of the
> cell.
>
> Also, depending on what Microsoft and your screen editor have done lately,
> it is advisable to:
> Open an Excel spreadsheet. Type alt + f. Up arrow to options.  Hit enter.
> Arrow down to advanced. Tab to “Allow editing directly in cells” and uncheck
> that box.  Tab to ok.
>
> This might help your situation.
>
>
> Regards
> Louis Maher
> Phone: 713-444-7838
> E-mail ljmaher03@...
>
> From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Marquette, Ed
> Sent: Friday, May 22, 2020 4:05 AM
> To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
> Subject: [nvda] Excel NVDA and Large Text Cells
>
>               I have a template Excel spreadsheet that I need to use over
> and over.  It does some rudimentary computations, but mostly it is a
> repository for data.
> I have problems with one column.  In that particular column, I need to enter
> a significant bit of text.  We are not talking about paragraphs.  Instead,
> the maximum length is about 30 words.
> Once the text exceeds, on average, five or six words, Excel goes totally
> silent.  Text continues to be entered, but there is no sound, even when
> using arrows or the tab key to move around.  I need to use Alt+Tab out and
> back again to restore speech.
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> I’m using the highest 19 version of NVDA (before version 2020) and the
> latest version of Excel.
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
>
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> work product or otherwise protected by applicable law. If you have received
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mobile no: +91 9940369593,
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can't seem to navigate through lists

Darren Harris
 

Hi all,

 

For some reason I can’t seem to navigate through lists. I go to a list on a web page, hit l, then I try navigating it with the up and down cursers but I can’t.

 

 

 

Any help please?
Re: Excel NVDA and Large Text Cells

Aravind R
 

Friends, is NVDA supportive in vlookup function? normal uses mouse to
select column range for second argument which is easily done by jaws
using control+page up/down then selection keyboard commands. but, NVDA
is not reading the selection. is there any work around with NVDA?

On 22/05/2020, Louis Maher <ljmaher03@outlook.com> wrote:
Hello Ed,

Some tips for Excel cell editing.

You can open a cell for editing with f2. When you are editing with f2, alt
+ enter will insert a line feed in that cell without throwing you out of the
cell.

Also, depending on what Microsoft and your screen editor have done lately,
it is advisable to:
Open an Excel spreadsheet. Type alt + f. Up arrow to options. Hit enter.
Arrow down to advanced. Tab to “Allow editing directly in cells” and uncheck
that box. Tab to ok.

This might help your situation.


Regards
Louis Maher
Phone: 713-444-7838
E-mail ljmaher03@outlook.com

From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Marquette, Ed
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2020 4:05 AM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: [nvda] Excel NVDA and Large Text Cells

I have a template Excel spreadsheet that I need to use over
and over. It does some rudimentary computations, but mostly it is a
repository for data.
I have problems with one column. In that particular column, I need to enter
a significant bit of text. We are not talking about paragraphs. Instead,
the maximum length is about 30 words.
Once the text exceeds, on average, five or six words, Excel goes totally
silent. Text continues to be entered, but there is no sound, even when
using arrows or the tab key to move around. I need to use Alt+Tab out and
back again to restore speech.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I’m using the highest 19 version of NVDA (before version 2020) and the
latest version of Excel.
Thanks in advance.




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email id : aravind_069@yahoo.com, aravind.andhrabank@gmail.com.
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Re: Excel NVDA and Large Text Cells

Louis Maher
 

Hello Ed,

 

Some tips for Excel cell editing.

 

You can open a cell for editing with f2.  When you are editing with f2, alt + enter will insert a line feed in that cell without throwing you out of the cell. 

 

Also, depending on what Microsoft and your screen editor have done lately, it is advisable to:

Open an Excel spreadsheet. Type alt + f. Up arrow to options.  Hit enter. Arrow down to advanced. Tab to “Allow editing directly in cells” and uncheck that box.  Tab to ok.

 

This might help your situation.

 

 

Regards

Louis Maher

Phone: 713-444-7838

E-mail ljmaher03@...

 

From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Marquette, Ed
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2020 4:05 AM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: [nvda] Excel NVDA and Large Text Cells

 

              I have a template Excel spreadsheet that I need to use over and over.  It does some rudimentary computations, but mostly it is a repository for data.

I have problems with one column.  In that particular column, I need to enter a significant bit of text.  We are not talking about paragraphs.  Instead, the maximum length is about 30 words.

Once the text exceeds, on average, five or six words, Excel goes totally silent.  Text continues to be entered, but there is no sound, even when using arrows or the tab key to move around.  I need to use Alt+Tab out and back again to restore speech.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I’m using the highest 19 version of NVDA (before version 2020) and the latest version of Excel.

Thanks in advance.

 




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Excel NVDA and Large Text Cells

Marquette, Ed
 

              I have a template Excel spreadsheet that I need to use over and over.  It does some rudimentary computations, but mostly it is a repository for data.

I have problems with one column.  In that particular column, I need to enter a significant bit of text.  We are not talking about paragraphs.  Instead, the maximum length is about 30 words.

Once the text exceeds, on average, five or six words, Excel goes totally silent.  Text continues to be entered, but there is no sound, even when using arrows or the tab key to move around.  I need to use Alt+Tab out and back again to restore speech.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I’m using the highest 19 version of NVDA (before version 2020) and the latest version of Excel.

Thanks in advance.

 




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Re: Accessible scanner drivers

Gene
 

Do you still have the old scanner and software and does the old scanner work?  You may have to connect the old scanner to install the software.  You may be able to begin the installation but at some point, it may ask you to connect the scanner.  If you install the old software, and it has Fine Reader as the provided OCR program, you can use it with other scanners or with the old one. 
 
Gene

----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2020 2:19 AM
To: nvda
Subject: Re: [nvda] Accessible scanner drivers

Abby fine reader can scan your document

On Fri, May 22, 2020, 04:46 Tony Malykh <anton.malykh@...> wrote:

To clarify my original question, my old scanner is Epson, and it's driver was completely inaccessible, so I was unable to install it, and back then I didn't have anyone sighted to help me - so no matter what OCR program you're using, without a driver it's not going to work. So this time I would like to check that the driver is accessible first and foremost.

On 5/21/2020 9:21 AM, Brian Vogel wrote:
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 10:59 AM, Gene wrote:
It used to be that at least some scanners came with accessible OCR programs.  I don't know enough about this to generalize, but it is my impression that not as many do now.
Gene, since you asked for comment, this is precisely the opposite of my experience, still ongoing.  I don't know of a single home or office grade flatbed scanner or multi-function that doesn't include OCR as part of its "scan to PDF" function.  They've all been doing this for years now.

I have a personal preference for Canon multi-function machines, which definitely include OCR functionality, but mostly because they still sell a number of models with separate ink tanks, which are less expensive in the long run, and infinitely less expensive if you buy automatic reset chip (ARC) tanks that you can refill.

A dear friend of mine who's my mother's age, and has been totally blind since birth, has been using a now-out-of-production Canon multi-function that I recommended to her for somewhere around 5 years or so now.  She does have scanning software other than that which comes with the multi-function, though, and I'm not sure which software she's using with it.

I have to admit that I am at least a bit confused by the original question, as I have not directly interfaced with a scanner driver, whether with a sighted or blind client, in years.  The application software that comes with or that you can use with the device is the user interface.
 
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Re: Accessible scanner drivers

Tyaseta Rabita Nugraeni Sardjono <tyasetarabita@...>
 

Abby fine reader can scan your document


On Fri, May 22, 2020, 04:46 Tony Malykh <anton.malykh@...> wrote:

To clarify my original question, my old scanner is Epson, and it's driver was completely inaccessible, so I was unable to install it, and back then I didn't have anyone sighted to help me - so no matter what OCR program you're using, without a driver it's not going to work. So this time I would like to check that the driver is accessible first and foremost.

On 5/21/2020 9:21 AM, Brian Vogel wrote:
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 10:59 AM, Gene wrote:
It used to be that at least some scanners came with accessible OCR programs.  I don't know enough about this to generalize, but it is my impression that not as many do now.
Gene, since you asked for comment, this is precisely the opposite of my experience, still ongoing.  I don't know of a single home or office grade flatbed scanner or multi-function that doesn't include OCR as part of its "scan to PDF" function.  They've all been doing this for years now.

I have a personal preference for Canon multi-function machines, which definitely include OCR functionality, but mostly because they still sell a number of models with separate ink tanks, which are less expensive in the long run, and infinitely less expensive if you buy automatic reset chip (ARC) tanks that you can refill.

A dear friend of mine who's my mother's age, and has been totally blind since birth, has been using a now-out-of-production Canon multi-function that I recommended to her for somewhere around 5 years or so now.  She does have scanning software other than that which comes with the multi-function, though, and I'm not sure which software she's using with it.

I have to admit that I am at least a bit confused by the original question, as I have not directly interfaced with a scanner driver, whether with a sighted or blind client, in years.  The application software that comes with or that you can use with the device is the user interface.
 
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Science has become just another voice in the room; it has lost its platform.  Now, you simply declare your own truth.

      ~ Dr. Paul A. Offit, in New York Times article, How Anti-Vaccine Sentiment Took Hold in the United States, September 23, 2019

 

 
Re: A few questions

Quentin Christensen
 

If you run NVDA without the add-on does the symbol level work as it should?  As you indicated, setting the punctuation level in a configuration profile should only affect that profile.

If you DON'T specify a particular setting in a configuration profile, and then change it in the normal profile, it will carry over, but if you then change it in the profile, it will take the profile setting.  To demonstrate:

1. using the normal profile.  Set the punctuation level to all
2. Create a profile and activate it.
3. Don't touch the punctuation level, but read something - all punctuation is read.
4. deactivate the profile.
5. Set punctuation level to none.
6. Activate the profile again.
7. Read something, punctuation level is set to none.
8. Set punctuation level to some.
9. Deactivate the profile.  Punctuation level returns to all (as set in the normal profile).
10. Activate the profile, punctuation level back to some.


On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 12:36 AM Akshaya Choudhary <acsociopath@...> wrote:

One more thing, Quentin. Since I’m experimenting with Phonetic Punctuation add-on, I created a profile for the same and set it to manual activation. To  use the add-on as per my preference, I changed the punctuation level for left quote, right quote, and bang. Now, when I switch to normal profile, it has a different synthesizer and Phonetic Punctuations is turned off, like I want and like I set it to be. But, the change in the punctuation levels of one profile is carried to the other profile. I would like to have different punctuation settings for these two profiles. How can I achieve this?

In short, I wish to have a profile with Phonetic Punctuation turned on, which I can manually activate, and which has its own punctuation settings. I wish to use this profile as an alternate to the normal profile, and thus don’t want it to be tied to a single application.

 


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Re: document converter things

Shaun Everiss
 

Nch products do have toolbars but are supposed to be accessible.

I know these guys do exist but never thought about using their stuff. for this.

On 22/05/2020 6:17 pm, Ian Blackburn wrote:
I would be careful aware of NCH products and I would not trust an on line convert utility unless the files were not private.


It would be slow but open them in librioffice and then save them but if they have very simple formatting just copy the text and paste in to notepad. This will get rid of all formatting. I use this technique and have for years to smash complex formatting from word documents and other things like webpages.

you can get MS word reader which is free. Then do what I suggested - that is select all text and paste in to notepad and then save as plain text.


enjoy.


regards

Ian



On 22/05/2020 2:09 pm, Shaun Everiss wrote:

aah ok I'lll look at that to.


On 22/05/2020 1:34 am, Tony Ballou wrote:
Hi,


Try this one.  It's got a free and a professional version, is accessible with screen readers, and should do the job.


https://www.nchsoftware.com/documentconvert/index.html


Tony

On 5/21/2020 1:47 AM, Shaun Everiss wrote:
Hi.

Further to my old document conversion issue a user suggested multiple document converter by polenter software.

I downloaded it but found 2 issues.

1.  the program is not fully accessible.

Thats fine, I have only 2 large folders of files I want to convert.

2.  on converting my word 95 files to 2003-word97 files, the files themselves were corrupted and jarte crashed.

I then tried docx.


Every document I had which was quite old my word 95 files for example, were blank.

This converter aint for me.

I have jarte which I payed for, which does everything I want.

Sadly I may have to get libre office or ms office or something so I can read the files, I have a system with libre office and the files are read fine enough, and I hardly need them, but if there is another document converter even ifits a low cost office thing I'll try that.

This one just is not serving my purpose.

I also had a little trouble accessing it and in fact the rest of the polenter apps were not especially usable.

I wander if there are document converters in the ms store.
Re: Accessible scanner drivers

Shaun Everiss
 

Jean yeah you are right fine reader sprint v6 a stripped down abbyy came with some epson scanners of yesteryear.

However its worth noting that aparently while the sprint version does exist, its development does not mirror actual releases of abbyy fine reader.

The last versions I saw on the abbyy site were versions 8, and 11, suggesting that while abbyy may have fine reader sprint for some stuff that its either discontinued or just not something they care about anymore.



On 22/05/2020 4:50 am, Gene wrote:
I know that Epson Perfection scanners used to come with an accessible version of Fine Reader, but a number of years ago, comments on one or two lists indicated that the software provided with the scanner is no longer accessible.  I don't know about other scanners.
 
Gene
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2020 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Accessible scanner drivers

On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 10:59 AM, Gene wrote:
It used to be that at least some scanners came with accessible OCR programs.  I don't know enough about this to generalize, but it is my impression that not as many do now.
Gene, since you asked for comment, this is precisely the opposite of my experience, still ongoing.  I don't know of a single home or office grade flatbed scanner or multi-function that doesn't include OCR as part of its "scan to PDF" function.  They've all been doing this for years now.

I have a personal preference for Canon multi-function machines, which definitely include OCR functionality, but mostly because they still sell a number of models with separate ink tanks, which are less expensive in the long run, and infinitely less expensive if you buy automatic reset chip (ARC) tanks that you can refill.

A dear friend of mine who's my mother's age, and has been totally blind since birth, has been using a now-out-of-production Canon multi-function that I recommended to her for somewhere around 5 years or so now.  She does have scanning software other than that which comes with the multi-function, though, and I'm not sure which software she's using with it.

I have to admit that I am at least a bit confused by the original question, as I have not directly interfaced with a scanner driver, whether with a sighted or blind client, in years.  The application software that comes with or that you can use with the device is the user interface.
 
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Science has become just another voice in the room; it has lost its platform.  Now, you simply declare your own truth.

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Re: Accessible scanner drivers

Shaun Everiss
 

Hmmm most modern scanners unless they are the semi expensive ie over 200 dollars will have an ocr package.

Anything 90 dollars or under won't.

All depends what you want.

cannon will have an ok driver set, online html manual, etc.

Hp will have a reasonable driver set, web interfaces, email printing but their smart setup and printer apps just don't work however regular drivers are a snap.

Firmware updates can be a bit of a tricky beast but you can update from the web internal server and its ok.

The hp connected account system is a heck of a lot better than it was a couple years back.

I am unsure about epsom but they did come with abbyy fine reader sprint.

Hp ones may come with readiris which sadly after version 12 aint worth it, a pitty because the prices for readiris on hps are majorly cut down.

So a home version of readiris is a lot less than it would other wise be.

A corperate version is slightly more expensive than the home version but aparently a user that I have as a friend and a fellow tester at dolphin and former dealer says its rubbish.

Right now, the only issue which is not resolved is that abby 15 while having a lot more access is really slow on menu access.

I have told support, they have tested it, and given it to the devs who have also tested it.

The bug has been found and aparently fixed but there is no release date for the new v15.

So either buy and use abbyy 14 or 12 for now.

You can try 15 but the menus just don't speak right with any reader.

Now if you want something with all the features, server controls, etc, brother stuff is the best.

No eprint, but the ability for server side controls with software which I have not tried to use.

An accessible ish web interface and service pannel.

Not as good as hp's interface but not bad either.

As usual updates from the device for firmware the updaters can be a bit hit and miss otherwise though a bit better than hp.

The driver installers are slightly inaccessible on a couple screens but not to bad.

The software updaters are ok enough to use.

The iprint software after its set just runs but aint really accessible.

The drivers themselves are ok but not that accessible though once installed its fine.

A pluss for brothers is that there is a full version of paperport installed and this will work if you have any brother product on the system.

The updater for that works well to.

So it all depends on waht you want.

On 22/05/2020 2:38 am, Tony Malykh wrote:
Hello all,
I am looking to buy a new scanner as my old one just died. However I've heard that scanner drivers from many manufacturers tend to be not very accessible. Can anyone recommend me which scanner (or scanner+printer) comes with accessible driver/accompanying software?
Thanks!
Tony



.
Re: document converter things

Ian Blackburn
 

I would be careful aware of NCH products and I would not trust an on line convert utility unless the files were not private.


It would be slow but open them in librioffice and then save them but if they have very simple formatting just copy the text and paste in to notepad. This will get rid of all formatting. I use this technique and have for years to smash complex formatting from word documents and other things like webpages.

you can get MS word reader which is free. Then do what I suggested - that is select all text and paste in to notepad and then save as plain text.


enjoy.


regards

Ian

On 22/05/2020 2:09 pm, Shaun Everiss wrote:

aah ok I'lll look at that to.


On 22/05/2020 1:34 am, Tony Ballou wrote:
Hi,


Try this one.  It's got a free and a professional version, is accessible with screen readers, and should do the job.


https://www.nchsoftware.com/documentconvert/index.html


Tony

On 5/21/2020 1:47 AM, Shaun Everiss wrote:
Hi.

Further to my old document conversion issue a user suggested multiple document converter by polenter software.

I downloaded it but found 2 issues.

1.  the program is not fully accessible.

Thats fine, I have only 2 large folders of files I want to convert.

2.  on converting my word 95 files to 2003-word97 files, the files themselves were corrupted and jarte crashed.

I then tried docx.


Every document I had which was quite old my word 95 files for example, were blank.

This converter aint for me.

I have jarte which I payed for, which does everything I want.

Sadly I may have to get libre office or ms office or something so I can read the files, I have a system with libre office and the files are read fine enough, and I hardly need them, but if there is another document converter even ifits a low cost office thing I'll try that.

This one just is not serving my purpose.

I also had a little trouble accessing it and in fact the rest of the polenter apps were not especially usable.

I wander if there are document converters in the ms store.
Re: document converter things

Shaun Everiss
 

aah ok I'lll look at that to.

On 22/05/2020 1:34 am, Tony Ballou wrote:
Hi,


Try this one.  It's got a free and a professional version, is accessible with screen readers, and should do the job.


https://www.nchsoftware.com/documentconvert/index.html


Tony

On 5/21/2020 1:47 AM, Shaun Everiss wrote:
Hi.

Further to my old document conversion issue a user suggested multiple document converter by polenter software.

I downloaded it but found 2 issues.

1.  the program is not fully accessible.

Thats fine, I have only 2 large folders of files I want to convert.

2.  on converting my word 95 files to 2003-word97 files, the files themselves were corrupted and jarte crashed.

I then tried docx.


Every document I had which was quite old my word 95 files for example, were blank.

This converter aint for me.

I have jarte which I payed for, which does everything I want.

Sadly I may have to get libre office or ms office or something so I can read the files, I have a system with libre office and the files are read fine enough, and I hardly need them, but if there is another document converter even ifits a low cost office thing I'll try that.

This one just is not serving my purpose.

I also had a little trouble accessing it and in fact the rest of the polenter apps were not especially usable.

I wander if there are document converters in the ms store.
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