Further to Ian's comment, 'supersize' Tiff images are just not good
enough, Mike. You NEED to be provided with information in a form you can
deal with. I would make that plain to your paymasters - especially as
its an Access Centre. That is just ridiculous.
Yep, been training for about 8 years, and been assessing for just over a
year. Work for AS, and also do some private work on the side.
Our conversation appears to have woken a few up who apparently didn't
know they were on this list. Well, this list is for Assistive
Technologists (lovely new term coined by TechDis I think..) or
Technology Trainers as far as I understand things, in a variety of
arenas. Personally, Im in HE.
Anyhoo, I will be trying to pass on other practical nuggets of info
regarding training the gamut of software usually being offered in HE,..
i.e. normally SpLD AT, but also the occasional dash of VI AT, with a
sprinkle of VR.
Hopefully, not everyone has jumped ship, and also that SOME at least,
are Trainers like me and Mike.
Yours
Tim Symons
Trainer/Assessor
Access Summit
0161 275 0990
"...supporting students..."
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From: Assistive Technology Trainers [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Mike Parry
Sent: 27 August 2009 00:11
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Subject: Re: FW: An easy way to convert PDF's to images, so that RWGOLD
3 for MAC can convert to Doc.
I would say that is certainly the case Doug. You'll need to send an
unsubscibe email - details will on this site somewhere, hopefully not
buried
too deeply.
I wonder if anyone else will come out of the woodwork, not realising
they've
been on this list for years without realising!
<tumbleweed>.....
Ian and Tim, thanks for your thoughts.
Originally they (the Access Centre we work for) used to send us hard
copies
of the reports - of course we moaned and groaned about having to scan
them
in and demanded digital formats. We then moaned and groaned about the
supersize tif files...but not quite so loudly - for fear of alienating
our
paymaster - and now we are where we are. Be careful what you wish for,
as
the adage goes..
I've thought on about R&WGold being 'clever' and OCR-ing text that is
the
wrong way up (tho producing lots of errors in the process). Perhaps it
is
actually a straightforward thing for an OCR program to look at text from
all
angles and decipher it. Looking at a typical report - they are so full
of
tabulated text and numerals and symbols, that maybe you'd get that many
errors even if the image file was the right way up.
BTW - are you guys both trainers? I work at Huddersfield University as a
trainer, but I'm gradually dipping my toe into the world of freelance
training. My timing could have been better perhaps..
Mike P
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