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Scanning and Reading PDF files
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Fantasy Sports <fantasylife@...>
If I scanned a book or magazine page into a PDF file
using a basic scanner, do I need a professional OCR program to extract the text? NVDA does seem to have its own decoding system for PDF files, but I think it depends how the document was scanned or prepared. Does anyone know?
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Richard Kuzma
Depends on what version of software you use to scan it.
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You cant use acrobat reader to ocr it, But if you get a standard version of acrobat it should do the ocr on it. Let me know if you need anything else. Rich
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From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of Fantasy Sports Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2017 6:40 PM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: [nvda] Scanning and Reading PDF files If I scanned a book or magazine page into a PDF file using a basic scanner, do I need a professional OCR program to extract the text? NVDA does seem to have its own decoding system for PDF files, but I think it depends how the document was scanned or prepared. Does anyone know?
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Fantasy Sports <fantasylife@...>
I just hit the Start Scan on the Epson Printer, and
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choose to scan to PDF. It creates a PDF file, but the text is not yet readable by NVDA. I think I need an OCR program, but Adobe Reader doesn't have any option like that unless you click CONVERT and pay for it, I think. I have some PDF files that NVDA can read without any problems, but maybe they've been OCR'ed already.
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Brian's Mail list account <bglists@...>
Personally, I'd use a paid for OCR for books, no matter which format you are displaying it as, as lots of errors can occur and you do need to be able to edit the final result.. in my experience a lot, depending on how bad the printing is how the book binding affects the scan. Its not a precise art, though a friend actually seems to get better results on his smart phone with knfb reader than I can with Adbbey or any other one I've tried using a scanner.
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Brian bglists@blueyonder.co.uk Sent via blueyonder. Please address personal email to:- briang1@blueyonder.co.uk, putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field.
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From: "Fantasy Sports" <fantasylife@earthlink.net> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2017 11:39 PM Subject: [nvda] Scanning and Reading PDF files If I scanned a book or magazine page into a PDF file
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hi.
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i recommend you to use google ocr. which is free, but its online and needs to sign in to your google account if i am correct. also nvda has one addon for that but i did not test it to explane. thanks so much and God bless you.
On 5/8/17, Brian's Mail list account <bglists@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
Personally, I'd use a paid for OCR for books, no matter which format you are --
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Gene
You may be doing what you want in terms of creating
a scannable image in an inefficient way. I don't know enough about PDF
documents to know if it matters. There are all sorts of image formats and
it might be more efficient to scan a page or a document into an image rather
than a PDF containing an image. But I'll let others discuss whether it
matters in terms of efficiency what you do.
The reason you see text that NVDA can read in some
PDF documents is that they are real text, not images of text. You can
store real text in PDF documents or images.
Gene
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From: nasrin khaksar
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2017 6:21 AM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Scanning and Reading PDF files i recommend you to use google ocr. which is free, but its online and needs to sign in to your google account if i am correct. also nvda has one addon for that but i did not test it to explane. thanks so much and God bless you. On 5/8/17, Brian's Mail list account <bglists@...> wrote: > Personally, I'd use a paid for OCR for books, no matter which format you are > > displaying it as, as lots of errors can occur and you do need to be able to > > edit the final result.. in my experience a lot, depending on how bad the > printing is how the book binding affects the scan. Its not a precise art, > though a friend actually seems to get better results on his smart phone with > > knfb reader than I can with Adbbey or any other one I've tried using a > scanner. > > Brian > > bglists@... > Sent via blueyonder. > Please address personal email to:- > briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' > in the display name field. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Fantasy Sports" <fantasylife@...> > To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> > Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2017 11:39 PM > Subject: [nvda] Scanning and Reading PDF files > > >> If I scanned a book or magazine page into a PDF file >> using a basic scanner, do I need a professional OCR >> program to extract the text? >> >> NVDA does seem to have its own decoding system for >> PDF files, but I think it depends how the document >> was scanned or prepared. >> >> Does anyone know? >> >> >> > > > > > -- we have not sent you but as a mercy to the creation. holy quran, chapter 21, verse 107. in the very authentic narration is: imam hosein is the beacon of light and the ark of salvation. best website for studying islamic book in different languages al-islam.org
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Fantasy Sports <fantasylife@...>
So if a PDF file can already be read by NVDA, does that mean
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that it was already prepared with an OCR program previously? Can you suggest an Adobe OCR product that is free or not expensive? Thank you for all your help.
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Gene
Screen-readers can't read images or pictures of
text. Anything that is read using any program is real text, consisting of
computer code for the text. If you open a PDF document and NVDA reads it,
it is real text. No OCR is necessary. If you open a document and
it’s a picture of text, you must perform OCR on it.
Gene
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From: Fantasy Sports
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2017 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Scanning and Reading PDF files that it was already prepared with an OCR program previously? Can you suggest an Adobe OCR product that is free or not expensive? Thank you for all your help. -----Original Message----- >From: Brian's Mail list account <bglists@...> >Sent: May 8, 2017 2:48 AM >To: nvda@nvda.groups.io >Subject: Re: [nvda] Scanning and Reading PDF files > >Personally, I'd use a paid for OCR for books, no matter which format you are >displaying it as, as lots of errors can occur and you do need to be able to >edit the final result.. in my experience a lot, depending on how bad the >printing is how the book binding affects the scan. Its not a precise art, >though a friend actually seems to get better results on his smart phone with >knfb reader than I can with Adbbey or any other one I've tried using a >scanner. > >Brian > >bglists@... >Sent via blueyonder. >Please address personal email to:- >briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' >in the display name field. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Fantasy Sports" <fantasylife@...> >To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> >Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2017 11:39 PM >Subject: [nvda] Scanning and Reading PDF files > > >> If I scanned a book or magazine page into a PDF file >> using a basic scanner, do I need a professional OCR >> program to extract the text? >> >> NVDA does seem to have its own decoding system for >> PDF files, but I think it depends how the document >> was scanned or prepared. >> >> Does anyone know? >> >> >> > > > >
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Travis Siegel <tsiegel@...>
OCR isn't necessary if the person who makes the pdf file puts text into the pdf. Only if the person who prepars the pdf puts images of text in it does OCR need to be run on the pdf file. Most pdf files are created with plain text, and are therefore readable by screen readers. It's only those folks who use screen shots, or graphical representations of text that can't be read directly by screen readers. If you use the control-p command, and tell windows to print to a pdf, as long as you're printing text, it will produce a pdf file that is readable by anyone using a screen reader. If you're using a program that represents text as images (such as most desktop publishing programs), then you will get a graphic picture of the text, and in that case, OCR will be necessary to read the text.
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On 5/8/2017 2:44 PM, Fantasy Sports wrote:
So if a PDF file can already be read by NVDA, does that mean
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Fantasy Sports <fantasylife@...>
Thank you Travis and Gene for explaining this, it makes sense now.
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From: Travis Siegel <tsiegel@softcon.com>
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