[vicsireland] Re: Encoding in word
- From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 14:24:41 -0000
Hi Joan Ann,
You use JAWS? and doesn't your JAWS have OCR for such scanned image pdf's?
The file will open in Adobe Reader, and, if it's an image, you may get a
message: Alert! Empty Document; in which case you then invoke JAWS OCR with
JAWSKey+SPACE, o, d. If JAWS then says, 'cannot find OCR component' or
something similar, then you can either download that, or download and
install the full version of JAWS again, or repair JAWS.
Of course, Kurzweil 1000 should recognise it anyway.
-----Original Message-----
From: Joan Ann Brosnan
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 11:57 AM
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Encoding in word
Hi Cearbhall
I can't open the document in Adobe as it is a scanned image. I am going to
see if I can open it in Kurzweil.
Thanks for the link. It is very informative.
Joan Ann.
-----Original Message-----
From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On
Behalf Of Cearbhall O'Meadhra
Sent: Tuesday 22 January 2019 11:40
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Encoding in word
Joan Ann,
Since you have already been opening PDF files in Word, this file must be
faulty in some way.
It looks as though the encoding is not being recognised by Word in the
format that your PDF files are normally matched. So, try opening the file
with Adobe Acrobat. If that, also, gives an error message, then can you go
back to the source of the file and get a better copy?
You can check what your Windows default setting is in Options in MS Word.
Here is a useful article that should make all this clearer and explains
various things that you can do:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/choose-text-encoding-when-you-open-
and-save-files-60d59c21-88b5-4006-831c-d536d42fd861#bm2
All the best,
Cearbhall
m +353 (0)833323487 Ph: _353 (0)1-2864623 e: cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx
From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On
Behalf Of Joan Ann Brosnan
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 11:17 AM
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vicsireland] Encoding in word
Hi all
I am trying to open a PDF document in word which I have had no problems with
in the past. Now it is asking me to select the encoding I want. The options
I have are:
Windows default
MS DOS
Or other encoding.
When I choose windows default the text in the document is just random
letters and signs. Is there a way that I can fix this please?
Thanks
Joan Ann Brosnan.
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