Hi, I'm guessing that it must be a scanned document as well. In a regular readable pdf, you navigate around the page and you'll find an intractable area where you can read the text within the pdf. In a scanned pdf kind of document,, you'll note the Toolbar, then if you VO-right one notch, VO will stop on something but not announce anything identifying. You can usually interact with that area but there's nothing readable in there. So, if you come upon the latter, you're kind of out of luck unless you have some sort of utility that can change it from the image to a readable pdf.
HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On May 8, 2014, at 7:41 AM, Regina Alvarado <reggie.alvar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Tim, I guess I don't know what I am looking for. When I opened the file it > seemed to be in a toolbar. What am I looking for to interact so I can try to > read. I have not read a document on the Mac yet. I think, though, that it may > have been a scanned document as I did not recognize anything like I have in > mail for reading the email. Gosh, I am learning, but the more I learn is the > more questions and confusion I have. I guess Windows was like that in the > beginning, but my brain was a whole lot younger then! LOL; Chuckling! > > > reggie and Allegra > > On May 8, 2014, at 5:39 AM, Eugenia Firth <gigifi...@me.com> wrote: > > Hi there > Although you can use an OCR program to OCR a pdf file and read the thing, I > have had better and more efficient luck with PDF Pen Pro. It OCR's the thing > and starts reading it very fast. > > Regards, > Gigi > > On May 7, 2014, at 4:57 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Usually, you can tell simply by it not being readable by your PDF reader. >> The sender may have scanned it sometime in the past thus making it an image >> of the legal document consequently unreadable by a blind/visually impaired >> user. >> >> Later... >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> On May 7, 2014, at 3:44 PM, Regina Alvarado <reggie.alvar...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> How do I know if the file is a page image? It was sent from a computer and >>> was not scanned. It was hooked to an email. >>> >>> >>> reggie and Allegra >>> >>> On May 7, 2014, at 5:41 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> If the pdf is an image of a page, the only way to read that sort of pdf is >>> to use OCR to transform it into a useful pdf with hooks that VO can latch >>> onto in order to read it to you. >>> >>> Later... >>> >>> Tim Kilburn >>> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >>> >>> On May 7, 2014, at 3:34 PM, David Chittenden <dchitten...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> PDFs are supported on the Mac. However, some PDFs are not accessible. Some >>>> PDFs are images of pages. >>>> >>>> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA >>>> Email: dchitten...@gmail.com >>>> Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>>> On 8 May 2014, at 9:31, Regina Alvarado <reggie.alvar...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On the Mac, how do I read attachments in PDF? I had an attachment. I >>>>> VO-SPACED on it and got a menu with options. I chose to open the PDF >>>>> file. When I tried to read, I could only see the title. The attachments I >>>>> need to read are legal so imporftant to see. 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