I hope that someone can advise of an easier and cheaper solution for
this but when encountering this problem I use a method on windows but in
theory should also work on the Mac side but I have not tried it. The
only really accessible way of getting access to columns or tables in PDF
documents in my experience is to convert them into Word or web htm
Documents and the best application for that on the Windows side for
layout preservation was Abbey Finereader Pro, which whilst converting by
OCR did a good job of preserving layout.
I think your best hope is that Abbey interprets it as a table rather
than a column. Columns are typically read in a column like a newspaper
article which is presumably what you do not want.
On the Mac side I also have Abbey Finereader Pro and theoretically it
should also, being based on the same recognition engine do a similar job
of preserving layout but I have not tried a PDF with columns and tables
on the Mac as I am used to doing this task in Windows.
On the Mac I would suggest that trying to export the result from Abbey
Finereader in web htm format so that Safari could read the document
might be your best bet, or possibly Pages can cope with a word
processing format with columns. Pages is supposed to work with tables
with Voiceover so there is some hope that it might cope with columns as
well. You might need to experiment.
David Griffith
On 21/02/2015 01:51, Traci Duncan wrote:
Hi all,
I’m sending this to both lists, because I’m reading this pdf on my Mac & my
iDevices. I have a recipe booklet in PDF and many of the recipes are in 2 columns.
For example chicken & rice is beside potato soup. When I attempt to read the
individual recipe, they get all confused via VoiceOver. Is there any settings in
Preview or iBooks that I can change, so I can read the columns separately?
Is there an alternative app that may work better?
Thanks,
Traci
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