Nick: Well thank you again for your astute commentary. I too am an amateur at all this and have an additional problem in terms of my impairment. So the...
Allen I suppose what you'd like to do is to be able to borrow a book from the library, and have it read out to you. I think that if I wanted to get a set of...
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Mar 26, 2011 5:50 pm
Nick: Thanks again! Insofar as reading the scanned book I have Jaws which can read anything except images. The trick is getting it into a file -- I can run my ...
Allen: Yes, I know you have Jaws, because we discussed this about a year ago, and I was able to install a free trial version of that excellent program, in...
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Allen Kleiman
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Mar 29, 2011 1:06 pm
Nick: Thanks for the lesson! After all is considered it appears that the Opti-deck scanner with the ABBYY Fine Reader software is the easiest path to follow; ...
Allen, Many thanks. Congratulations on getting a book through to Gutenberg. I am truly looking forward to June to see whether Ion's Book Saver becomes a...
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Allen Kleiman
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Jun 6, 2011 2:25 am
Here we go again!!!!! Does it seem to be asking too much to pay for a book and be able to read it with any kind of reading glasses I want? I recently purchased...
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Allen Kleiman
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Jun 10, 2011 11:09 pm
Dear Digital Wizards: Many companies, e.g., Adobe claim to sell or give away accessible products. Now the world of digital books is upon us and it turns out...
This is only partially correct. People and institutions can create PDF files that are inaccessible but that doesn't mean all PDF files need be that way. ...
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Allen Kleiman
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Jun 13, 2011 12:31 am
Thank you for your response. It is my position that vendors,e.g., Adobe, who offer and sell products to institutions of all kind have an ethical dilemma when...
Like any other format (be it HTML, EPUB, Word, etc.), PDF is a file format. The content in that format can be accessible or it cannot. When authoring ANY...
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Allen Kleiman
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Jun 13, 2011 7:36 pm
Leonard: Please be advised that it is the Publisher and not the Author who decides on accessibility. The increased interest in etexts has prompted publishers...
The problem, Allen, is getting EVERY VENDOR of EVERY PDF solution to offer the ability to even create accessible PDFs. Only a small number (less than a...
Allen - what does DRM have to do with Accessibility? DRM prevents unauthorized use but has no impact on whether a document will interact with a screen reader...
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Allen Kleiman
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Jun 13, 2011 8:03 pm
Leonard: Thanks for your inciteful reply. I never had any problems until the digital pdf came into popularity. I have an ABBYY Fine Reader OCR program that...
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Allen Kleiman
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Jun 13, 2011 8:04 pm
I use the Jaws Screen Reader which cannot read Adobe digital versions which I think are unreadable because of the DRM. What is 'unauthorized access' for a...
Dear Colleague: Bimonthly the Documentation Sciences Foundation edits the online magazine DOCUMENTATION (ISSN 1988-5032), an free online publication, with...
Estimadas/os: La Fundacion Ciencias de la Documentacion notifica que se encuentra abierto el plazo de inscripcion para el curso "Recuperacion de informacion en...
Estimadas/os: La Fundacion Ciencias de la Documentacion notifica que la semana proxima comienza el curso "Conservacion de material documental digital: soporte...
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Estimadas/os: La Fundacion Ciencias de la Documentacion notifica que esta abierto el plazo de inscripcion de la 3era y ultima edicion del curso "Proteccion de...
Dear Fellow Dataists, We have gotten some great feedback on tools used for messing with metadata. Included in some of the comments is either explicitly or...
Estimados compañeros/as, con suma satisfaccion les hacemos llegar la estructura del libro "Movilidad: retos y oportunidades para los profesionales de la...
Hi! I suppose this group still exists, though I haven't heard anything from anyone in it for quite some time. Just to say that I have been using the new...
... Agreed, strangely quite for far too long. The issue of and interest in converting paper documents into digital format seems to have evaporated, yet it...
Hi Nick I've started using FR 11 too and it's very accurate. It does pose some extra problems for TEI conversion, like the way it handles footnotes. Also I...
Hi, John You are exactly the person I was wondering about, because when FR 10 came out you were rather disparaging about it. I am glad you are finding FR 11 to...
Thank you, Lars, that is very helpful. The last message is in Dutch, and it is the only one on page 7. The last message on page 6 appears to be a translation...
